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... electronics. This includes enhanced power sources that may take advantage of nanoscale material architectures for electrodes, battery separators, fuel cell catalysts, etc., as well as for the electronic devices themselves (e.g., moving to 50-nm circuit design rules, more efficient integrated circuits requiring less power to operate, and conformal organic electronics)
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... · Build up long-term, in-house technical expertise in areas related to smalltech; in the near term, seek expert advice regarding investments in areas of high technical risk or uncertainty. Examples include quantum computing and communication, molecular electronics, and intelligent sensor networks.
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... may be developing technologies that could also prove valuable to the mission of the intelligence community. Federal nano R&D efforts are organized and coordinated under the National Nanotechnology Initiative,2 established in 2000.3 While the Committee did receive some information about internal government technology development programs, these were illustrative rather than an exhaustive presentation of the federal government's technology portfolio.


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