Like last year, trustworthy Josh Wolfe, editor of the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report, made the point that the real opportunities in nanotechnology do not come from leveraging Moore’s law-like advancements to make gadgets smaller and more powerful (although conference chair Mike Roco rightly made the point that this will still be valuable), but instead come from leveraging the new properties that materials exhibit when one begins to manipulate materials at the nanoscale. He called this process, simplexification.

Other salient points included an update on Nanosys Inc.'s progress and a recent discussion with Michael Mauboussin on the coming nano-IPO window. It was good to have lunch with Josh again.