PowerShares Lux Nanotech (ETF)

So here is the monthly update on PowerShares Lux Nanotech ETF(AMEX:PXN):


The performance isn't very bright, and while the stock market indexes didn't react very well to the Fed's decision, most of the few nanotechnology stocks aren't really performing that good either.

On the opposite direction, the solar industry seems to be doing just fine, beating all the other sectors and even the hot china funds. Some solar stocks have gone more than 50% just in the last month!

While I've talked about the future potential of solar technology applied with nanotechnology, the solarstocks performance seems to be happening today, contrary to the nanotech sector.

There are many interesting articles and analysis out there regarding solar energy, and I suggest you head over to SolarTechnologyStocks blog, being one of the few only dedicated to this area.

http://solarstocks.blogspot.com/

More updates as soon as new stuff comes out regarding nanotechnology and the markets.

Blogs impact on Nanotech research

More steps are being taken for the scientific community to spread to the newfound medias that blogs represent.
Using the blog community for stimulating the growth of ideas and attract more people to the broad field of nanotechnology is probably the beginning of revolutionary new ways to expand science to the masses.

The Daily Nexus Online published an article linking nanotechnology and blogs:

“Blogs are having a major impact on research, since they allow sharing of interim results, provisional findings, new but untested ideas, and many of the ingredients of creative thinking,”

read the article here.

The article mentions a new blog in the nanotech blog community, called Nanoscience and Nanosociety Linking Nanoscience, Society, and Culture
Sharing academic research and new ideas, contributors include graduate students studying nanotechnology and people associated with R&D nanotechnology centers.

I recommend it to anyone interested enough to be reading this blog, so go and visit them: Nanoscience and Nanosociety blog