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SPIE Photonics West 2008

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:43:43 +0100

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Photonics West includes the entire spectrum of light-driven technologies and attracts researchers and product developers from around the world.

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Photonics West includes the entire spectrum of light-driven technologies and attracts researchers and product developers from around the world. Four renowned symposia, 3,000 R&D presentations, and two robust exhibitions connect the brightest minds with leaders in science and technology.
+ BIOS 2008
+ LASE 2008
+ MOEMS-MEMS 2008
+ OPTO 2008
Register for the opportunity to:
+ Collaborate with colleagues across diverse fields and disciplines
+ Add value to your own research efforts
+ Get up to date on the latest developments in your field

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http://spie.org/photonics-west.xml?WT.mc_id=RCALENDARW

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http://spie.org/photonics-west.xml?WT.mc_id=RCALENDARW

Drug Delivery 2007: Where Science and Business Meet

Benj — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:49:44 +0000

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This must-attend conference for the drug delivery community brings together expert speakers from the Drug Delivery, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Device and Venture Capital fields. Unlike other drug delivery conferences, we offer six distinct scientific tracks covering the latest discoveries and trends in nanotechnology, transdermal, ophthalmic, oral, injectables and nasal/pulmonary delivery, while our business and science track provides practical, actionable information about the latest issues relevant to the entire drug delivery community. New this year are our extensive regulatory and compliance sessions. You’ll also find all-new topics such as prodrugs and gene therapy.

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>> The latest advances in drug delivery in the following fields:
o nanotechnology
o transdermal
o ophthalmic
o oral
o injectables
o nasal/pulmonary
>> The challenges and opportunities facing the drug delivery community as a whole
>> The most promising novel delivery systems for macromolecules, proteins, peptides and nanoparticles
>> Why particle engineering and biomaterials are key to the advancement of drug delivery
>> What drug delivery systems are currently in development
>> The latest Industry partnering trends
>> How to transition from a drug delivery company to a pharmaceutical company
>> How to attract venture capital

…and more!

Event precise location and contact information

Interested in being part of our world-class speaking faculty at Drug Delivery 2007?

Contact Wen Minkoff at wminkoff@frallc.com or (831) 465-2284 to submit your proposal!

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http://www.pharmedassociates.com/

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NSTI Nanotech 2007

Benj — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:59:40 +0000

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Nanotech 2007 is the largest international nanotechnology conference and trade show in the world. Unlike single-discipline events, Nanotech brings together specialists from a wide range of fields of science, technology and business.

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More than 400 featured exhibitors and an expected crowd of more than 4000 attendees, which will include business executives, venture capitalists, politicians, scientists and researchers from 53 countries.

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Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054

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http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2007/

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Tinytechjobs.com

Benj — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:33:35 +0100

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Web url

http://www.tinytechjobs.com/

Contact Email

info@tinytechjobs.com

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Street address

1170 Broadway

Zip or postal code

94501

Telephone

510.868.1043

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510.868.1050

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Tinytechjobs is a unique global career web site focused on jobs at the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology. It allows job seekers to search through a large database of industry jobs and apply online and it offers effective targeted advertising opportunities to employers. The site also contains many resources for those interested in nanotechnology, including education and research information and links, company information, a calendar of industry events, and links to journals, associations, and societies.

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NanoSensors, Inc.

Benj — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:31:05 +0000

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http://www.nanosensorsinc.net/

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Street address

1800 Wyatt Drive, Suite #2

Zip or postal code

95054

Telephone

408.855.0051

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408.855.0079

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Applied Materials

Benj — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:25:53 +0100

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http://www.appliedmaterials.com/

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Street address

3050 Bowers Avenue, P.O. Box 58039

Zip or postal code

95054-3299

Telephone

1-408-748-5227

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1-408-563-4606

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As a core information infrastructure company, Applied Materials innovates and commercializes the processing and manufacturing technology that helps semiconductor manufacturers produce the world's most advanced chips.

Applied's service products include equipment maintenance, materials supply and management, parts refurbishment, equipment remanufacturing, yield enhancement, training and other solutions for increasing semiconductor manufacturing productivity.

To support customers around the world, Applied Materials employs approximately 12,600 people in over 65 locations throughout China; Europe and Israel; India, Malaysia and Singapore; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; and the United States.

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Novellus Systems, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:22:33 +0000

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http://www.novellus.com/

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info@novellus.com

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Street address

4000 North First Street

Zip or postal code

95134

Telephone

(408) 943-9700

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The company’s legacy CVD, PVD, and ECD products are used to deposit extremely thin films of insulating and conductive materials that are used to create the wiring on a chip. Other Novellus products are used to clean the surface of the chip in-between manufacturing steps (surface preparation), to polish the surface of the device to ensure a flat (planar) surface (CMP), or to post-treat deposited films in order to improve mechanical properties (UVTP). As circuit geometries decrease in size, the deposition, surface preparation, CMP, and film treatment systems manufactured by Novellus become increasingly critical technologies for manufacturing advanced semiconductor devices.

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Nanoplex Technologies, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:13:03 +0100

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Web url

http://www.nanoplextech.com/

Contact Email

info@nanoplextech.com

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Street address

665 Clyde Avenue, Suite A

Zip or postal code

94043

Telephone

650-603-5900

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650-961-1880

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Building on the fruits of more than a decade of proprietary research, Nanoplex Technologies focuses on developing and commercializing products based on novel metal nanoparticles and nanoparticle-based surfaces. The unique physical, chemical, and optical properties of these nanomaterials make them ideally suited to meet growing needs in:

Life science research (multiplexed bioassays and multiplexed detection)

Portable, real-time detection of small, organic molecules in water and air (ultrasensitive molecular ID)

Robust, nanoscale tagging for authentication and tracking (next generation barcoding/AutoID).

Nanoplex's core competencies include (i) nanoparticle synthesis; (ii) techniques to attach biomolecules to nanoparticles and nanoparticles to surfaces; (iii) using the resulting particles and/or surfaces in analytical or bioanalytical measurements; and (iv) development of optical instrumentation and software for nanoparticle detection and quantitation.
Nanoplex has developed a powerful technology in its Nanobarcodes particles, which will serve as the foundation for products used to help identify and/or tag molecules and the cornerstone in non-biological tagging and auto-id applications.

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Nanogen, Inc.

Benj — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:19:02 +0100

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http://www.nanogen.com/

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Street address

10398 Pacific Center Court

Zip or postal code

92121

Telephone

877-626-6436

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858-410-4952

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Ceo, president

Howard Birndorf

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Nanogen's mission is to become a leading supplier of molecular diagnostic tests to the medical community and to clinical researchers. We commercialize instruments, consumables, electronic microarrays and reagents through a direct sales force and distributors in North America, Europe and Asia. We also provide a highly experienced technical support staff and Field Application Specialists dedicated to helping our customers around the world.

The NanoChip Molecular Biology Workstation, our first commercial product, is an automated, multi-purpose instrument primarily used for DNA-based analyses. Researchers in the field of molecular biology and genetics use the platform to study how genes function and to understand the correlation between genetic variation and disease. The NanoChip System can also be used for human identification, important in the forensics field.

Our system is uniquely bridging the gap between early-stage scientific research and actual clinical practice, delivering certainty, control and consolidation.

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SAIC

Benj — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:14:01 +0100

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http://www.saic.com/

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10260 Campus Point Drive

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92121

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We are a leading provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and products to all branches of the U.S. military, agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other U.S. Government civil agencies, as well as to customers in selected commercial markets. Our customers seek our domain expertise to solve complex technical challenges requiring innovative solutions for mission-critical functions in such areas as national security, intelligence and homeland defense. Increasing demand for our services and products is driven by priorities including the ongoing global war on terror and the transformation of the U.S. military.

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The 6th Annual Nanotech Investing Forum

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:22:24 +0000

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The Nanotech Forum will give attendees an inside look at investing in innovative nanotechnologies. Nanotech and public companies will discuss how they are capitalizing on nano business opportunities and mitigating risks. Learn the range of nanotech and the impact on varied and disparate markets

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The IBF Nanotech Investing Forum, where VCs, corporate investors and nanotech CEOs unite. This conference provides investors with leading-edge information to profit from nanotech innovation.

OUR 6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE WILL ADDRESS:
• Venture Capitalists’ perspectives & strategies
• The range of nanotechnology: How nanotech is enabling
varied industries
• Nanotechnology commercialization: past, present, future
• Commercial advances: Real companies and real revenues
• A view from the trenches: emerging growth company perspective
• Roundtable sessions on: Energy, clean-tech, materials, life sciences and memory/electronics
• Best practices in corporate investing & strategic alliances
• Nanotechnology patenting 2007
• Keynote- Nanotechnology: A federal government perspective
• The public markets & nanotech: What Wall Street wants to
see from nano companies before going public
• The growing opportunities between nanotechnology
and clean tech

THIS CONFERENCE WILL ENABLE YOU TO EXPERIENCE UNPARALLELED NETWORKING:
• Determine the best nanotech opportunities & strategic initiatives
• Understand how nano technologies will make a dramatic impact on specific commercial applications
• Hear from and share ideas with the dealmakers in nanotech investing

Event precise location and contact information

The Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa
44-400 Indian Wells Lane
Palm Springs, CA 92210-8708
Phone: (760) 773-4444

For more information or to register for this conference, please click here and mention discount code: S-NV to receive a discounted rate of $1,395.00. You may also contact - IBF’s Registrar: Cathy Fenn, at cathy@ibfconferences.com and 516 765-9005 x21.

This discount is only applicable to the Nanotech Investing Forum and cannot be combined with any other offers.

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http://www.ibfconferences.com/NI/index.htm

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Nanosolar, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:32:46 +0100

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http://www.nanosolar.com/

Contact Email

info@nanosolar.com

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Street address

2440 Embarcadero Way

Zip or postal code

94303-3313

Telephone

650.565.8891

Fax

650.565.8894

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Nanosolar is bringing to market a new generation of solar electricity cells with unprecedented cost/performance and ease of handling.

Nanosolar brings the economics of plastics and high-throughput roll-to-roll manufacturing to solar electricity: Nanosolar's proprietary technology enables plastic solar cells to be engineered at the nanometer scale in the way that the relevant quantum physics demands it--and manufactured through a series of simple, fast, and low-temperature coating steps.

In addition, Nanosolar's cells are light-weight, flexible, and easily adjustable in shape, thus also simplifying product handling, including integration, installation, and logistics.

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American Association of Nanotechnology

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:02:52 +0100

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Web url

http://www.aanano.com/

Contact Email

info@ianano.org

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Street address

2386 Fair Oaks Boulevard, P.O. Box 231823

Zip or postal code

95825

Telephone

916-529-4119

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916-244-7029

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The American Association of Nanotechnology (AANano), is a non-profit organization, and an affiliate member of the International Association of Nanotechnology (http://www.ianano.org)

AANano promotes the exchange of knowledge and research collaborations, facilitating dialogue, conducting advanced educational programs, heightening public awareness, evaluating the environmental and societal impact, and studying potential regulations and public policy concerning nanotechnology development in the United States of America and around the world.

The AANano co-organizes regional meeting and international congress for bringing clarity and focus to the scientific research, business development, technology transfer, venture capital investment, regulatory affairs, environmental and societal aspects of Nanotechnology.

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Sun Nano webstore

Benj — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:25:05 +0000

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Web url

http://www.nanomaterialstore.com/

Contact Email

tech@nanomaterialstore.com

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Street address

44166 Old Warm Springs Blvd.

Zip or postal code

94538

Telephone

(510) 651-1329

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(510) 651-1321

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At Sun Nano, we are a dedicated company that strives for vast improvements in the nanomaterials industry. Located in the heart of silicon valley, we employ first-class chemists who skills are utilized to bring about new nanomaterial products to the marketplace. We at Sun Nano realize the importance that nanomaterials play in various industries, and strive to produce the very best quality for our customers.

We offer our customers the option of purchasing nanomaterials that are in powder form or dispersed form because we understand the different needs of our customers. By offering dispersed nanomaterials, this greatly increases the safety of the product. It also eliminates the need for a controlled vacuum chamber in which to interact with the nanomaterials. In addition to offering products that are readily available, we would like to help you in any way possible by creating specific products that can be tailored to your needs. Our chemists are experienced in producing complex nanomaterial products and will work with you to create the right product.

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Unidym, Inc.

Benj — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:54:27 +0000

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http://www.unidym.com/

Contact Email

info@unidym.com

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Street address

1430 O'Brien Drive, Suite G

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

(650) 462-1935

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(650) 462-1939

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Unidym, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), uses nanotechnology to produce high-performance, cost-effective products for the electronics industry. The Company possesses patented technologies and industry-leading capabilities in the synthesis and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a nanostructured form of the highly abundant element.

Discovered in the early 1990’s and later pioneered by Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley, CNTs have a unique structure that gives them extraordinary electrical and mechanical properties, including a current-carrying capacity per unit area that is one thousand times greater than copper and a tensile strength that is fifty times greater than steel. Such properties make CNTs highly promising materials for a number of current and future applications.

Unidym’s initial product is a transparent, conductive film of CNTs that replaces the approximately $1B of expensive and brittle metal oxide (e.g., ITO) films currently employed in touch screens, flat panel displays, OLEDs and thin film solar cells. The Company is already working with several potential customers in this space. Unidym is also developing CNT-based thin film transistors for the emerging flexible display market, that leverage the work of the Company’s founders, Professor George Gruner of UCLA. Unidym believes that its CNT-based devices will offer higher performance levels than are possible with strictly polymer-based approaches.

Unidym’s product line builds upon the growing trend in the electronics industry to replace today’s expensive materials and manufacturing processes with simpler, lower-cost production techniques similar to those found in the printing industry. Termed flexible or printable electronics, this opportunity been forecast by independent experts from IDTechEx to be $30 billion by 2015, and as much as $250 billion by 2025.

Through its recent merger with Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (CNI), Unidym has created one of the most expansive intellectual property portfolios in the CNT industry, with foundational patents covering nearly every aspect of CNTs. Although Unidym is currently focused on the CNT electronics industry, its patent portfolio broadly covers many other promising CNT applications, ranging from structural composites to sensors to therapeutics. The Company collaborates with and licenses its intellectual property to manufacturers of products in these other CNT industries.

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Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:39:29 +0100

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http://www.stemedica.com/about/default.asp

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Street address

5375 Mira Sorrento Pl, Suite 100

Zip or postal code

92121

Telephone

858-658-0910

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858-658-0986

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These accomplishments are driven by a world class team of prominent scientists, leading clinicians, and executives from successful nutritional, medical and pharmaceutical businesses. The members of the team are located in Centers of Excellence in San Diego, CA, Palo Alto, CA, and Eastern Europe and are directed toward solving the problems associated with this new generation of medicine.

Stemedica Cell Technologies is supported by both individual and institutional funding. Our experienced management team has been responsible for launching several successful companies and the members of our Founders and Scientific Advisory Board have been involved in developing and bringing to market "industry first" medical device, biotech, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. We are committed to, and capable of, delivering sustained growth and superior value to our shareholders.

Stemedica is becoming one of the undisputed leaders in engineering the new frontier of adult stem cell methodologies, technologies, therapies and treatment protocols.

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Spansion LLC

Benj — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:12:58 +0100

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http://www.spansion.com/

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Street address

915 Deguigne Drive, PO Box 3453

Zip or postal code

94088 3453

Telephone

+1 408 962 2500, +1 866 SPANSION

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Spansion is dedicated to enabling, storing and protecting digital content in the automotive, consumer electronics, networking and wireless markets. As the largest company exclusively focused on Flash memory solutions, Spansion has one of the most diverse and comprehensive Flash product lines on the market.

By leveraging cutting-edge advancements such as the award-winning MirrorBit™ technology, Spansion has successfully developed cost-effective, smaller and more powerful product offerings designed for reliable code execution and data storage. Offering a NOR architecture for code and ORNAND™ architecture for scalable data storage, Spansion’s customers can maintain a common platform and scale the amount of data storage necessary for various applications.

Our world-class, system-level design support leverages the expertise of a dedicated software development team and design engineers to partner with customers and complementary silicon and software providers to optimize systems that incorporate Flash memory. These offerings come with world-class sales, customer service and technical support.

Spansion, publicly traded on NASDAQ [SPSN], was previously a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu and draws upon a rich history of technological innovation and market leadership that dates back to the early days of the Flash market. Spansion has approximately 8,300 employees around the globe.

Spansion is solely focused on the integrated electronics market, in which Flash memory resides in the device. In this market segment, customers value differentiated systems with high quality and performance. Blue chip customers in the integrated segment who use Spansion Flash memory products include the top 10 original equipment manufacturers for automotive electronics, consumer electronics and handsets.
By leveraging cutting-edge advancements such as the award-winning MirrorBit™ technology, Spansion has successfully developed cost-effective, smaller and more powerful product offerings designed for reliable code execution and data storage. Offering a NOR architecture for code and ORNAND™ architecture for scalable data storage, Spansion’s customers can maintain a common platform and scale the amount of data storage necessary for various applications.

Advanced manufacturing capabilities, four dedicated production Flash memory wafer fabs and a development fab enable us to accelerate the introduction of next-generation technologies. As a result, Spansion has developed highly scalable solutions that provide a smooth migration path to future products and technologies over time to meet customers’ evolving requirements.
Our world-class, system-level design support leverages the expertise of a dedicated software development team and design engineers to partner with customers and complementary silicon and software providers to optimize systems that incorporate Flash memory. These offerings come with world-class sales, customer service and technical support.

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Accelrys, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:27:48 +0100

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http://www.accelrys.com/

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Street address

10188 Telesis Court, Suite 100

Zip or postal code

92121

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+1 858 799 5000

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+1 858 799 5100

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Accelrys, Inc.(NASDAQ: ACCL), formerly Pharmacopeia, Inc., incorporated in 1993, develops and commercializes scientific software and technology that accelerates and improves drug discovery and chemical development. The Company's molecular modeling, simulation, informatics, workflow and data pipelining software supports both the life sciences and materials research markets. Its life science solutions support pharmaceutical biotechnology companies, while its material science solutions support companies that develop companies that develop and optimize materials and chemicals, such as companies serving the chemicals, petrochemicals, food, personal care products, electronics and nanotechnology industries.

Accelrys' software covers a range of disciplines, including gene sequence analysis, proteomics, rational drug design, lead optimization, materials research and formulation design. These software products help researchers increase the speed and efficiency of the research and development cycle. Accelrys' software customers include government and academic institutions, as well as commercial organizations within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, petroleum and semiconductor sectors. Accelrys has active license agreements with a number of chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations.

Accelrys' Modeling and Simulation software product suite is comprised of quantum mechanical simulation, molecular simulation and mesoscale simulation technologies. This product suite consists of over 100 application modules based on its own technologies that merge fundamental scientific principles with advanced computer visualization, molecular modeling and computational chemistry techniques. These products, which are principally used by specialist computational chemists and biologists, allow scientists to compute chemical, biological and materials properties, to simulate, visualize and analyze chemical and biological systems and to communicate the results to other scientists. These products have been designed within flexible software architectures that facilitate the development, integration and deployment of new products. It also offers open access to many of its core software development environments.

The Company's line of Informatics Software is comprised of bioinformatics and cheminformatics solutions. Its bioinformatics solutions include a suite of programs enabling molecular biologists to search, edit, compare, map and align sequence data. Researchers use these products to enable the analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and protein sequences and structure, predict ribonucleic acid (RNA) secondary structure and annotate protein sequences. The Company also provides enterprise-wide tools that assist in the management and analysis of this data. Accelrys' cheminformatics software includes data visualization and analysis software to search, retrieve and use chemical structures, biological and chemical data, experimental data and registration information. Most of these tools use industry standard software components and are compliant with commonplace applications, such as Microsoft Excel. Accelrys also uses this cheminformatics component technology and database architectures to build customized enterprise-wide systems for client companies, and also sells these implemented components to customers who want to build or customize their own systems.

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Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. ( PFC )

Benj — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:52:37 +0100

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http://www.pfce.net/

Contact Email

contact@pfce.net

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Street address

131 N. Tustin Ave. Suite 100

Zip or postal code

92780

Telephone

1-714-564-1693

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1-714-558-9301

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Pacific Fuel Cell has engineered a next-generation membrane electrode assembly for direct methanol and proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The MEA is the heart of a fuel cell and is critical for efficiently generating electricity. What is unique about the companys next-generation MEA technology?

The unique feature of Pacific Fuel Cells MEA is its use of carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are great electron conductors and electrochemically stable. They can also have high surface area and provides many advantages over previous MEA technologies.

One significant problem with previous MEA technology is the quantities of precious metals required and their associated high cost (e.g., platinum currently is over $900 US dollars/per ounce). In previous MEA technologies, platinum is deposited on carbon black particles and the supported catalysts are then sprayed or brushed onto the carbon paper. However, this process is not ideal and leaves many of the expensive platinum particles not fully utilized in the electricity making process. Pacific Fuel Cell's scientists have solved the problem. By using carbon nanotubes as the catalyst support and aligning them in a unique way, an ideal surface area is realized and the electricity-producing platinum nanoparticles can be fully utilized. In fact, due to this improved utilization of precious metals, much less amounts of the expensive platinum particles are needed to reach a desired power level of the MEA. Therefore, Pacific Fuel Cell's next-generation carbon nanotube MEAТ“ technology still provides maximum power output while significantly decreasing the cost of making fuel cells.

Another significant problem with previous MEA technologies is the limited life span of the electricity-producing precious metals (e.g., platinum). The limited life span of the platinum particles is due to the instability of the carbon black support. During repeated use and under high electrochemical potential, the carbon black supports tend to be corroded causing the platinum particles to dislodge, aggregate, and precipitate into highly inefficient clumps. Since the platinum particles are critical for making power, the MEA becomes gradually inefficient and the fuel cells performance deteriorates. Eventually, the MEA and fuel cell need to be replaced. Again, Pacific Fuel Cell's technology has solved the problem. Instead of attaching to the carbon black, the companyФ”s scientists attach the platinum nanoparticles to the carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes are more stable than carbon black and this attachment is stronger and more secure. Therefore, the platinum nanoparticles stay in place and dispersed, and subsequently, increase the life span of the precious metals, MEA and fuel cell.

Pacific Fuel Cell's carbon nanotube MEA technology can help enable a new generation of more efficient and better performing fuel cells. Pacific Fuel Cell's carbon nanotube MEA technology can be engineered to meet your company's different fuel cell wattage and amperage requirements. From small fuel cells to large fuel cells, Pacific Fuel Cell's next-generation carbon nanotube MEA technology can provide your company with an improved fuel cell solution.

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Front Edge Technology, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:43:38 +0000

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Web url

http://www.frontedgetechnology.com/

Contact Email

info@frontedgetechnology.com

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Street address

13455 Brooks Drive

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91706

Telephone

626-856-8979

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626-851-1369

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NanoEnergyTM is a miniature power source designed for highly space limited micro devices such as smart card, portable sensors, and RFID tag.

The battery is composed of solid-state thin films. There is no liquid in the package. The electrolyte is Lithium Phosphorus Oxynitride (LiPON) developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL). Front Edge Technology has a licensing agreement established with ORNL. Cathode material is LiCoO2, and the anode is Lithium.

FET is building a NanoEnergyTM production line with designed annual capacity of 200,000 pieces of 1-mAh NanoEnergyTM. This production line includes six industrial-scaled, in-line vacuum deposition systems, as well as other supporting equipment. Samples of NanoEnergyTM made by this production line have been delivered to FET’s customers for their product developments.