Friday, August 17, 2007

Nanotech’s Impact on Cleantech Growing Rapidly

August 16 - Business Wire - With the fevered search for new clean technologies, attention is turning to nanotech’s potential in energy and environmental innovation. Nanotechnology’s impact on cleantech is growing, and happens both through product and process innovations, with each type of impact posing its own set of challenges, according to a new report titled “Nanotech’s Impact on Energy and Environmental Technologies” available exclusively to Lux Research clients.

“The rapid increase in nano-enabled cleantech patents and publications relative to overall cleantech numbers indicates that nanotechnology’s impact on cleantech, though small at present, is growing at a fast clip,” said the report’s lead Lux Research analyst Jaideep Raje. “However, the near-term cleantech applications of nanotechnology are likely to come in more mundane forms like catalysts, coatings, and additives – not through big-ticket applications like next-generation photovoltaics.” Read More.

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