Mihail Roco is a sometimes-polarizing figure in the development story of nanotechnology. On the one hand, he gave shape and purpose to what became the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) and led it through its early formative years, but on the otherespecially among those who support a vision of nanotechnology involving molecular manufacturing (MNT)he was at least one of the agents behind moving US funding away from MNT and towards material science. Continue reading →