From Briefing:

 NY Times reports nanotechnology cos, nurtured on billions of dollars in govt grants and venture investments through most of this decade, are getting ready to go public… And increasing numbers of nanotech products are in the offing. Mihail Roco, senior adviser for nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation and an architect of the govt’s research effort, predicted in an interview on the Web site of the National Nanotechnology Initiative that by 2015 nanotechnology will play a crucial role in $1 trillion worth of products, “which would require two million workers.” Cos in nanotechnology speak of adapting their research to medical innovations, in which nanoparticles would deliver medicine directly to individual cells, and to solar energy, in which nano-enabled photovoltaic coatings would capture and store the sun’s energy at a lower cost than today’s solar panels… Another co hoping to go public in the near future is Unidym, which works with clusters of carbon nanoparticles that possess extraordinary properties in tensile strength and conduction of electrical current. Unidym, is a subsidiary of the Arrowhead Research (ARWR), a public investment co that was founded in 2003 to back small cos engaged in nanotechnology research. Arrowhead is advised by half a dozen professors at the California Institute of Technology. In March, Arrowhead helped Unidym merge with Carbon Nanotechnologies, a co that was founded by the late nanotechnology pioneer Richard Smalley of Rice University, who won the Nobel Prize for his work… Arrowhead Research is backed by Fidelity Investments, the mutual fund co, and York Capital Mgmt, a hedge fund co, and other public shareholders.

Dizamn.  It sounds a couple years off, but if there really are a group of nanos in the pipeline, using my crystal ball, the stocks will be bid up due to excitement, meaning there should be many tradable ancillary plays, maybe ever ARWR itself.  Thinking about the future…