How nanoscience will improve our health and lives in the coming years

1. UCLA Researchers

1.1. Nanoparticles can be designed to target infectious disease.

2. Nanoparticles may lead to more effective treatments of neurological disorders.

3. "The field is poised to make contributions far beyond the nanoscale worlds that we have explored so far," said Weiss, who is also a disinguished professor of materials science and engineering at UCLA. "This is the age of discovery for nanoscience and nanotechnology."

4. Nanotechnology is likely to capture, convert and store energy with greater efficiency, and will help to safely produce sustainable and efficient large-scale production to meet the increasing worldwide demand for energy.

5. Nanoscience advances may lead to advances in food safety and reductions in food contamination.

6. Nanoscience has brought together sientists, enginners and clinicians from many fields, and will continue to cross many academic boundaries.

7. Weiss and Nel, who are members of the California Nanosystems Institute, and the other researchers advocate strong federal support for nanoscience, and predict significant progress toward major scientific goals will be achieved by the end of this decade. They also advocate basic research to produce currently unforeseen discoveries.