This report offers a snapshot of the status of nanotechnology in the context of the environment. Environment is defined here as the totality of all the external conditions affecting the life, development and survival of an organism. Environmental degradation in terms of water, air and soil...

Nanotechnology has the potential to contribute to energy sustainability by reducing consumption, improving the infrastructure for energy generation, transmission and use, and offering new methods for energy production. To achieve this, the field of nanotechnology and energy needs to have a solid...

This report offers a snapshot of the status of the environment for nanotechnology in the context of construction. The construction industry covers the building, maintaining and repairing of buildings and infrastructures for living, working and transport, including providing materials for those...

This report offers a snapshot of the status of the environment for nanotechnology in the context of transport. Transport is defined here as a sector based on vehicles for transporting people and/or goods via the air, rail, road, water and space, and is here divided into two main areas, vehicles...

Photonics emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from work on semiconductor light emitters, lasers and optical fibres. Nanoscale effects impact on photonics, e.g. in the surface quality of waveguides and optical fibres. The focus here remains as closely as possible on photonics as it relates to...

This report offers a snapshot of the environment for nanotechnology in the context of information and communication technologies (ICT). It gives an overview of policies and programmes for nanotechnology and ICT in the EU (and wider), publications, patenting, research & innovation, industry,...

This report offers a snapshot of the environment for nanotechnology in the context of health. It gives an overview of policies and programmes for nanotechnology and health in the EU (and wider), publications, patenting, research & innovation, industry, products and markets, and the wider...

This report offers a snapshot of the environment for nanotechnology in the context of manufacturing. It gives an overview of policies and programmes for nanotechnology manufacturing in the EU (and wider), publications, patenting, research & innovation, industry, products and markets, and the...

In the context of the preparation of the future research and innovation Framework Programme of the European Union (FP9), the study collects evidence to assess the potential impacts of mission-oriented R&I approaches. The extensive desk research is the basis for the analysis of mission-oriented...

In the context of the preparation of the future research and innovation Framework Programme of the European Union (FP9), the study collects and analyses evidence of current and recent mission-oriented research and innovation initiatives in European Member States and other major economies around...