Nanotech 2006 will bring together leading nanotechnology experts in biology/chemical defense, radiological defense and sensors to explore how nanotechnology discoveries can help create the next-generation of devices to protect the public from a variety of threats. Nanotechnology usually refers to technological developments on a nanometer scale--typically 0.1 nanometer to 100 nanometers. The National Security Symposium will be held from May 8-11 in Boston, Mass.

The Nano/Micro Technology for National Security program will bring together scientists, engineers, physicians, professors, and government and business professionals to examine nanotechnology's role in a variety of high-risk public safety applications. The symposium will be held in conjunction with Nanotech 2006, a multidisciplinary nanotechnology conference.

"At this symposium, we shall explore how national security problems might be better addressed through the use of integrated systems that rely on nanotechnology components," said Dr. Anantha Krishnan, director of Lawrence Livermore's R&D for Micro- and Nano-Technology unit, and one of the main drivers of the Nanotech 2006 program in Nanotech for National Security. "The key for us is not to simply review the individual components, but to examine how the different components of nanotechnologies could be integrated into next-generation solutions."

Speakers will focus on how to improve ease-of-use of nano-sensors, the design of smaller, smarter and more integrated sensors to improve efficiency and meet the public's expectation of non-invasive techniques and increase the "smart identification" capabilities of chemical/biological agents for quicker and easily updatable screening and data analysis. There will be speakers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, United Kingdom.

Nanotech 2006 was organized by The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), Boston, Mass. NSTI was founded in 1997 building upon a merger of various scientific societies. The headquarters of NSTI is in Cambridge, Mass. with additional offices in California.

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