Nanotechnoloy is the new frontier currently being featured in many magazines and touted as the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Rice University recognized the potential of Nanotechnology and built a $30 million building establishing The Center for Science and Nanoscale Technology. An alumnus of Rice University, Royal BodyCare's founder and President Dr. Clinton Howard, is a member of the Rice Alliance for Technology And Entrepreneurship.

What is all the excitement about?

What is Nanotechnology?

A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, the width of six hydrogen atoms, or about 100,000th the size of a single grain of sand! Nanotechnology involves the manufacture and manipulation of molecules from 1-100 nanometers in size.

"Nanotechnology has given us the tools... to play WITH the ultimate toy box of nature-atoms and molecules...The POSSIBILITIES to create new things appear to be LIMITLESS."

Horst Stormer,
Columbia University,
Nobel laureate.

"...four of the defining technologies of the 21st century will be nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and environmental science...the potential both for improving the quality and increasing the length of life has never been greater."

Malcom Gillis,
President
Rice University.

"If I were asked for an area of science and engineering that will most likely produce the breakthroughs of tomorrow, I would point to nanoscale science and engineering."

Neal Lane, Assistant to President
George Bush
Science and Technology