 Harvard's Charles Lieber Gets Wise to Nanowires
 anotechnology
is the answer to the question, after silicon-based computing, then what?
Its future is all visionary promise: logic elements composed of single
molecules and small chemical groups, nanowired together by the billions
on a single chip, ultimately producing computing power and miniaturized
information technology the likes of which we can barely imagine. While
progress has been slow by the science-fiction-like criteria that
naturally accompany such promising technology, the last few years have
nevertheless seen a slew of preliminary breakthroughs—the construction
of nano-scaled devices, for instance, and the linking together of those
devices in simple circuits—that have continued to fuel the
extraordinary expectations.
The avant garde of nanotechnology is driven by a half-dozen
laboratories that seem locked in a fierce competition to move the field
forward one step of technological wizardry after the next. Harvard
University chemist Charles M. Lieber is among the perennial
front-runners in this race. In this issue’s lead story, in fact,
Lieber rates among the top five most-cited nanotechnology authors of the
last decade. And in the Chemistry
Top Ten, Lieber’s
laboratory can claim the paper currently ranked at #4. In the past
decade alone, Lieber and coauthors have generated more than 20 articles
with at least 100 citations each...
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Nanotechnology
Research
 esearchers
have made big things happen in recent years by fashioning extremely small
objects. Science Watch, therefore, decided to survey nanotechnology
research over the last decade. The table on the following
page ranks institutions according to two measures: in the left-hand column,
by total citations to papers published on assorted "nano"
topics between 1992 and 2002; and, in the right-hand column, by citations per
paper, or impact (among institutions that published at least 100 nanotechnology
papers over the 11-year period). The tables in this article (both on this page
and the following
page) list the most-cited nanotechnology researchers of the last decade, and
the most-cited journals...
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