Narrator: This is Science Today. One of five nanoscale science
research centers funded by the Department of Energy is located
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Rick Kelly, the
Environmental Health and Safety Manager of the Molecular
Foundry, explains the intent of the facility is to foster the
development of new nanotechnologies that can benefit society.
Kelly: The next revolution in technology in this country is
nanotechnology. And the intent of the Department of Energy is to
excite people and give them opportunities they might not have at
their home research institutions to do nanoscale science, so
they use our facilities, they use the expertise of our
scientists and they use the techniques and materials we've
developed over the years to hopefully develop great new
technologies that will help society and help medicine and all
the fields that are applicable to science. Narrator: There are
all kinds of applications - from the development of cheap,
nanoscale solar cells and nanoparticle-containing