Energy Applications for Nanotechnology
Michael Bruce, senior advisor for finance in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy, said bringing in specialists in business development when
working on public-private collaborations is more effective than the "technology
incubators" commonly created by academic institutions working with private
industry.
Bruce delivered the keynote for a new conference focused on the use of nanostructures
in energy applications. Nanotubes, buckyballs and similar nano devices are familiar
in applications such as thin films for solar photovoltaics, but nanomaterials
also are used in electricity generation and transmission, said Nano Business
Alliance vice president Vincent Caprio.
Run time 3.51 mins