Acknowledgments

I am extremely grateful to the many nano-insiders who devoted time to participate in interviews, discuss their research, share their personal stories, and read portions of my book to ensure I “got it right.” Many nano-insiders generously provided referrals and introductions to colleagues who allowed me to expand my network of nanotech professionals in science, business, government, and media.

I especially want to thank Michael Terlaak, founder of the Nanotechnology Research Foundation in San Diego, who provided referrals to numerous colleagues at the beginning of my research. This helped jump-start the interview process. Lynn Foster also opened his contact network to me and provided some excellent insights. My friend and colleague Brent Segal, cofounder of Nantero, provided a wonderful entree to critical issues in nanotechnology – by inviting me in 2007 to help organize and serve on the senior leadership of the IEEE/IEC project developing standards for the use of nanomaterials in electronics.

Several university colleagues at the Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania played an important role in my “academic development.” I want to thank Jerry Wind, Saikat Chaudhuri, and the Mack Institute's Core Group for giving me an informed vantage point on a wide array of emerging technologies during my more than 18 years at the Wharton School. I joined Wharton in 1995 to help launch the Emerging Technologies Management Program, which in 2001 became the Mack Center for Technological Innovation and in 2013 became the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Throughout these changes I was privileged to provide managerial leadership as Managing Director, which kept me thinking constantly about radical innovations including nanotechnology.

I started writing this book while studying for my master's degree in environmental studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The research methodologies I learned during my graduate studies were immensely valuable. Yvette Bordeaux, who chaired the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program at the University of Pennsylvania, helped me tailor my graduate studies to include nanotechnology in my curriculum, including a superb course on nanotechnology taught by Dr. Jody Roberts from the Chemical Heritage Society. My graduate advisor Stan Laskowski was extremely helpful and supportive.

I'm especially grateful to my editors at Wiley-VCH: Heike Noethe, my terrifically patient and absolutely awesome editor, and Martin Preuss who championed the book when I first presented the concept and got me started on the project. Dr. Noethe was patient, encouraging, generous, professional, constantly enthusiastic, and supportive. As an author, I couldn't ask for a better editor/publisher.

Having started my career as a journalist, I greatly appreciated the availability of Google, Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Gmail, and other tools that gave me instant access to emerging innovations and allowed me to contact virtually any nano-insider I wanted to interview, including some of the world's leading scientists and business leaders.

My mega-thanks and gratitude go to the more than 150 nanotechnology insiders who participated in interviews and provided information, insights, and images, graciously sharing their experiences to help make this book accurate, relevant, and “real.” Many of these pioneers and champions have already made tremendous contributions to the field of nanotechnology, and continue to help drive nanoinnovation forward. Others are toiling 24/7 in laboratories and offices to turn possibilities into solutions. Their enthusiastic participation in this book project allowed me to include observations and opinions that can only come from insiders who truly know what's really happening in nanoinnovation. I also want to thank those who provided or facilitated the use of the images and diagrams included in this book. Thank you again to these remarkable nanoinnovators and champions, with apologies to anyone I may have inadvertently excluded from this very extensive list or whose affiliations/titles may have changed since this list was updated:

Deshamaya Mahesh Amalean – Chairman MAS Holdings, chairman, SLINTEC.

Paul Alivisatos, Ph.D. – Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology, UC-Berkeley; Director, Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Peter Antoinette – Cofounder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nanocomp Technologies.

Anthony Atala, MD – W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Chair, Department of Urology, Wake Forest School of Medicine; founder, Regenerative Medicine Foundation; Scientific Founder and Chairman of R&D at Tengion, Inc.

David Bachinsky, Ph.D. – Founder, CEO, Chief Scientific Officer at Molecular Creativity.

Joe Bailey – Health Care and Life Sciences Business Strategist, Intel Corporation.

Peter Balbus – Founder and Managing Director, Pragmaxis LLC and a Founding Strategic Advisor, Nanotechnology Research Foundation.

Lajos (Lou) Balogh, Ph.D. – Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine; CEO of AA Nanomed Consulting; former Professor, Roswell Cancer Institute, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Mark Banash, Ph.D. – Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Nanocomp Technologies.

Peter Bell, Ph.D. – Director, Cell Morphology Core, Gene Therapy Program, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Berger – Cofounder, Nanowerk LLC; Editor, nanowerk.com.

Parijat Bhatnagar, Ph.D. – Consultant, Biomedical Engineering (Biochips, Microfluidics, BioMEMS Devices); Advisor, Intel Research.

Peter Binks, Ph.D. – Chief Executive Officer, Sir John Monash Foundation; former Chief Executive Officer of NanoVentures Australia.

Dawn Bonnell, Ph.D. – Trustees Chair Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science; and Vice Provost-Research, University of Pennsylvania.

Mike Boyer – Engineering Teacher, North Penn High School, Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

Sam Brauer, Ph.D., J.D. – Principal in the Consulting Group, NanoBiz, LLC; and founder/consultant at Nanotech Plus, LLC.

Stephen Brobst, Ph.D. – Chief Technology Officer, Teradata.

Darren K. Brock – Senior Staff Research Engineer, Lockheed Martin.

Darrell Brookstein – Managing Director, The Nanotech Company LLC; Executive Director of Nanotechnology.com; author of the book, Nanotech Fortunes (Nanotech Company, 2005).

Charles Brumlik, Ph.D., J.D. – Principal, NanoBiz, LLC.

Ahmed Busnaina, Ph.D. – William Lincoln Smith Professor; and Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing, and the NSF Center for Microcontamination Control (CMC); at Northeastern University.

Stuart Cantrill, Ph.D. – Chief Editor, Nature Chemistry (former editor of Nature Nanotechnology).

Han Cao, Ph.D. – Founder of BioNano Genomics.

Taylor Cavanah – Executive at Zyvex Instruments and DCG Systems (2004–2010); founder and CEO, Locai, Inc.

Thomas Celluci, Ph.D. – Former Chief Commercialization Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, former President/CEO at Zyvex Corporation.

Christopher Chen, MD, Ph.D. – Skirkanich Professor of Innovation, Department of Bioengineering; Director of the Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory; and founding Director of the Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering.

Pearl Chin, Ph.D. – Research Fellow (and former President) at the Foresight Institute; Managing Director, Seraphima Ventures.

Daniel T. Colbert, Ph.D. – Executive Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bill Cook – Principal, Commercialization, Molecular Diagnostics at WECA.

Lance Criscuolo – President, Zyvex Technologies.

Alfred J. Crosby, Ph.D. – Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering and Director of the Crowby Research Group; University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jeffrey Davis, MD – Director, Human Health and Performance, and Chief Medical Officer, NASA Johnson Space Center.

Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D. – Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Pankaj Dhingra – Former CEO, Nanostellar; General Manager-Global Mergers & Acquisitions; Nissan Motor Company.

Robert Dombrowski – President and Principal Scientist, Nanoview Associates, LLC.

Samuel Simon Dychter, MD – Senior Medical Director, Halozyme Therapeutics.

Patrick Ennis, Ph.D. – Global Head of Technology, Intellectual Ventures – former Managing Director at Arch Venture Partners.

Terry Fadem – Former Managing Director, Corporate Alliances, Office of Science and Technology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Omid Farhokhzad, MD – Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director, Laboratory of Nanomedicine and...