Nanotechnology encompasses many diverse disciplines to enable the manipulation of matter at the atomic level. This opens radical new approaches to material property enhancement and synthesis for near term as well as long term integration of nanotechnology into commercial products. For example, printed electronics technology, where active devices are being realized through the convergence of printing technologies and microelectronics is limited by the printable semiconductor mobility. Printable semiconductor inks, fabricated from semiconducting nanoparticles may yield higher performing devices. Additional opportunities may exist for deployment of nanotechnology in mobile devices which make use of nanotechnology for surface enhancements and novel assembly processes. The nanotechnology research behind these diverse opportunities will be discussed.