Like every living being or institution ASDN has its history which will be written on this page with life going on (at atomic and nano scale!).

ASDN history starts in the previous millennium. At the E-MRS meeting in Strasbourg in 1999, Anatoli Korkin (he was at Motorola at that prehistoric time) has presented the idea of a web site and mailing list (the word web portal was not yet popular or may be even did not exist at that time) in fundamentals of materials design for microelectronics to Dr. Jim Greer (also know as an Irresistible Man) from Tyndall Institute (at that time NMRC). However, neither Anatoli nor Jim had expertise in web design. Luckily, Anatoli had a good friend, who is a guru in programming and internet, Dr. Jan Labanowski. Jan has his own web portal , Computational Chemistry List (CCL), and he also has a big heart for his friends, desperate for his skills, knowledge and wisdom. Jan used the CLL web site, skripts as a prototype to design the framework of ASDN, which he, Anatoli and Jim (and his students) populated by initial information. However, there is no history without a mystery and no creation without inspiration: The life of ASDN at the internet at its first years came not from its mailing list or data bases (links) but from Nano and Giga Forum, series of the Nano & Giga Challenges conferences with the initial focus in microelectronics (NGCM2002 and NGCM2004) which has been expended further toward photonics (NGC2007 ) and renewable energy (NGC2009).

The new page in ASDN history has started in the summer 2007 when the leading Russian nanotechnology tool maker, NT-MDT has signed an agreement with Nano & Giga Solutions for development of , ASDN.NET into an educational web portal for atomic structure and fundamentals of nanotechnology. From here we start a new story and you are welcome to join the hard work glory and add your stuff to the web portal and your footprint on this history page.