The President of the United States The White House Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: Your Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) strongly endorses the establishment of a National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), beginning in Fiscal Year 2001, as proposed by the National ...

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In the last 16 years, over $24 billion has been dedicated to this effort. By Executive Order 13349, every 2 years we, your President’s Council of Advisors on Science · and Technology (PCAST), examine the Federal government’s role in this national initiative.

President Barack Obama · The White House · Washington, DC 20502 · Dear Mr. President, We are pleased to send you this “Report to the President and Congress on the Third Assessment of the · National Nanotechnology Initiative,” prepared by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and ·

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) expedites the discovery, development and deployment of nanoscale science and technology to serve the public good through a program of coordinated research and development aligned with the missions of the participating agencies.

In recognition of the importance of nanotechnology R&D, representatives from companies, government agencies, colleges and universities, and non-profits are announcing a series of new and expanded public and private initiatives that complement the Administration’s efforts to accelerate the commercialization of nanotechnology and expand the nanotechnology workforce: The Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, NY and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are launching the Nano Health & Safety Consortium to advance research and guidance for occupational safety and health in the nanoelectronics and other nanomanufacturing industry settings.

Under the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), scientists, engineers, and educators are building a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry.

President Barack Obama · The White House · Washington, DC 20502 · Dear Mr. President, We are pleased to present to you the Report to the President and Congress on the Fifth Assess- ment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, a review by the President's Council of Advisors ·

Under the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), scientists, engineers, and educators are building a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry.

January 12, 2011 - Last week, many big names from the Federal government’s past and present efforts in science and technology came together just outside Washington, DC, at the “NNI Innovation Summit” to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)—the multi-agency cooperative effort designed to catalyze breakthroughs in nanoscale science and engineering. President Obama’s science and technology advisor, John P.

February 13, 2012 - See the President's daily schedule, explore behind-the-scenes photos from inside the White House, and find out all the ways you can engage with the most interactive administration in our country's history.

October 10, 2014 - The Federal Government has invested over $20 billion in nanotechnology research over the past 13 years, yielding fruitful work that has successfully helped create the building blocks of nanoscience.

March 23, 2016 - Under the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), scientists, engineers, and educators are building a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry.

President Obama announces the BRAIN initiativein the East Room of the White House on April 2, 2013. ... As noted last month and previously, (1-4) nanoscience and nanotechnology have a great deal to contribute in advancing the technologies needed ...

June 28, 2022 - The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)-through its approximately 100 interagency working groups, task forces, and subcommittees-published over 90 policy papers over the course of the Obama Administration in the areas of environment, natural resources, and sustainability; homeland and national security; fundamental science; technology; and STEM education. The NSTC set strategies and coordinated resources for many of the Administration’s interagency science, technology, and innovation initiatives, including the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program, the Materials Genome Initiative, the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program, and the Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Program.

1 month ago - Throughout the history of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, there have been a variety of programs and challenges aimed at aligning the field with the highest priorities of the nation. With the development of the most recent NNI Strategic Plan in 2021, the NNI created National Nanotechnology Challenges (NNC). The first NNC, Nano4EARTH, was announced by the White House ...

June 21, 2016 - Under the pre-existing National Nanotechnology Initiative, bolstered by implementation of recommendations from PCAST, revenue from the sale of nanotechnology-enabled products in the United States has grown more than six-fold from 2009 through 2016 and is projected to exceed $500 billion in 2016—amounting to more than 20 percent of the global total.

April 15, 2026 - President George W. Bush signs the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act on Dec. 3, 2003. Credit: White House.

April 11, 2016 - Nanotechnology environmental, health, and safety (nanoEHS) activities have become a hallmark of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). Well-coordinated nanoEHS research and development (R&D) is essential to ensuring a future in which responsible development of nanotechnology provides maximum benefit to society and the environment.

July 1, 2022 - Beginning in 1999, we and other members of the administration began an active campaign to have the NNI included as one of the president’s initiatives in the FY 2000 budget. We told the science agencies that if they proposed increases in funding for nanoscale S&E above the budget “guidance” they had received from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), we would fight for those increases. We began to educate other senior White House staffers about the long-term promise of nanotechnology and worked with the research community to identify a series of ambitious but plausible grand challenges (for example, storing the Library of Congress in a device the size of a sugar cube or detecting cancerous tumors before they are visible to the human eye) that would be easy to communicate to the public.