David Brown welcomes you onboard the Jee Jee
Welcome to the Jee Jee Blog where the exciting, challenging and inspiring world of nanotech is explored and debated. This is my first venture into the arena of blogs but after persistent prodding from Mikko and Jouni on the sailboat Jee Jee, here I am, ready to explore and debate with other like and unlike minded people. Here we plan to invite entries from thinkers and doers from the whole spectrum of nanotechnology, from basic researchers to commercializers and policy makers. I look forward to the future of this blog and to the future of our subject.
A host of nanotechnologies already being commercialized in fields as diverse and medicine, energy and electronics. I work in the field of carbon nanotechnology: carbon nanomaterials like nanotubes, fullerenes and graphene, which have applications on all these fields and more. Carbon is an amazingly agile atom and is the basic building block of a life on our planet. It is, by definition, organic. It is cheap, abundant and available everywhere. Nobody has a monopoly or cartel on carbon. There is plenty for all of us … forever.
Nanotechnology allows us to take advantage of this fantastic material in ways unimaginable only a decade ago and carbon nanotechnology will allow us to replace many of our current materials, from iron to silicon, with better performing and environmentally sound alternatives. Picture your phone or you car or your house, like you, based largely of carbon, richer in texture and color than anything you have now and with functions and performance beyond any you can imagine while simultaneously consuming less energy through its whole life cycle from extracting raw materials, to manufacture, to use and finally to disposal. This is an inspiring future and I am moved to be part of it.
David Brown
CEO
Canatu Ltd.