Explore the potential for nanotechnologies to transform future mobile and Internet communications. Based on a research collaboration between Nokia, Helsinki University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge, here leading researchers review the current state-of-the art and future prospects for:

• Novel multifunctional materials, dirt repellent, self-healing surface materials, and lightweight structural materials capable of adapting their shape

• Portable energy storage using supercapacitor-battery hybrids based on new materials including carbon nanohorns and porous electrodes, fuel cell technologies, energy harvesting and more efficient solar cells

• Electronics and computing advances reaching beyond IC scaling limits, new computing approaches and architectures, embedded intelligence and future memory technologies.

• Nanoscale transducers for mechanical, optical and chemical sensing, sensor signal processing, and nanoscale actuation

• Nanoelectronics to create ultrafast and adaptive electronics for future radio technologies

• Flat panel displays with greater robustness, improved resolution, brightness and contrast, and mechanical flexibility

• Manufacturing and innovation processes, plus commercialization of nanotechnologies.