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Caliper Life Sciences

NanoStaff — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:41:32 +0000

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http://www.caliperls.com/

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68 Elm Street

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01748

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508.435.9500

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508.435.3439

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Caliper Life Sciences (NASDAQ: CALP) is a leading provider of cutting-edge technologies enabling researchers in the life sciences to create life-saving and enhancing medicines and diagnostic tests more quickly and efficiently. Caliper has compiled numerous best-in-class solutions and is aggressively innovating new technologies to bridge the gaps that exist in bringing in vitro assays to in vivo results and ultimately into cures for human disease. With a keen focus on clinically-relevant experimentation, Caliper’s portfolio of offerings includes state-of-the-art microfluidics, lab automation & liquid handling, optical imaging technologies, and discovery & development outsourcing solutions.

Our company represents a community of intelligent, highly-motivated people dedicated to working together as a team to improve the human condition through innovation in life sciences research. We maintain world headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and direct sales, service and application-support operations in biopharmaceutically-active countries around the globe. Caliper’s customers and partners include leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, and AstraZeneca, among others.

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American Superconductor

NanoStaff — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:04:14 +0000

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http://www.amsc.com/

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64 Jackson Road

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01434

Telephone

978.842.3000

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978.842.3024

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AMSC is a leading energy technologies company offering an array of solutions based on two proprietary technologies: programmable power electronic converters and high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires. The company's products, services and system-level solutions enable cleaner, more efficient and more reliable generation, delivery and use of electric power. AMSC is a leader in alternative energy, offering grid interconnection solutions as well as licensed wind energy designs and electrical systems. As the world's principal supplier of HTS wire, the company is enabling a new generation of compact, high-power electrical products, including power cables, grid-level surge protectors, Secure Super Grids Technology, motors, generators, and advanced transportation and defense systems. AMSC also provides utility and industrial customers worldwide with voltage regulation systems that dramatically enhance power grid capacity, reliability and security, as well as industrial productivity. The company's technologies are protected by a broad and deep intellectual property portfolio consisting of hundreds of patents and licenses worldwide

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Acusphere

NanoStaff — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:07:34 +0000

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http://www.acusphere.com/

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ehuang@acusphere.com

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500 Arsenal Street

Zip or postal code

02472

Telephone

617-648-8800

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617-926-3605

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Acusphere, Inc.™ is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops new drugs and improved formulations of existing drugs using its proprietary porous microsphere technology. We are focused on developing proprietary drugs that can offer significant benefits such as improved safety and efficacy, increased patient compliance, greater ease of use, expanded indications or reduced cost

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MITRE

vinay1210 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:28:40 +0000

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http://www.mitre.org/

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202 Burlington Road

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01730-1420

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(781) 271-2000

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The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, we apply our expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address our sponsors' critical needs.

MITRE manages three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DoD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC), one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development), and one for the Internal Revenue Service (the Center for Enterprise Modernization). MITRE also has its own independent research and development program that explores new technologies and new uses of technologies to solve our sponsors' problems in the near-term and in the future.

MITRE was formed in 1958 as a not-for-profit corporation under the leadership of C.W. Halligan. In the beginning, several hundred employees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratories came to MITRE to create new technology for the Department of Defense—specifically the Semi-Automated Ground Environment, which used brand new digital computers. The company expanded in 1963 after the Federal Aviation Administration gave the company systems engineering responsibility for the projected National Airspace System. MITRE continued to expand as it took on new challenges for new customers, always focused on serving the public interest. Our work in information technology led to the formation of an FFRDC for the Internal Revenue Service in 2000, which now provides enterprise modernization support to numerous government agencies. Over the years, the company has continued to evolve to meet the changing needs of its sponsors by providing top-notch engineers and scientists experienced in a wide range of technologies.

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Nantero

vinay1210 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:29:01 +0000

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http://www.nantero.com/

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info@nantero.com

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25-E Olympia Avenue

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01801

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Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. These devices include memory, logic, and other semiconductor products. In the field of memory, Nantero is developing NRAM™, a high-density nonvolatile Random Access Memory. The company's objective is to deliver a product that will replace all existing forms of memory, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with NRAM™ serving as universal memory. The potential applications for the nonvolatile memory Nantero is developing are extensive and include the ability to enable instant-on computers and to replace the memory in devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, and PDAs, as well as applications in the networking arena. NRAM™ can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications.

Nantero will license complete packages to enable manufacturers to produce, market, and sell nanotube-based semiconductor products, such as NRAM™, which can be used in both standalone and embedded memory applications. These technology transfer packages will include a process module and the associated process knowledge, intellectual property rights, and the necessary nanotube materials.

Nantero is the first company to actively develop semiconductor products using carbon nanotubes in a production CMOS fab. Nantero is also the first company to develop microelectronic-grade carbon nanotube material, compatible with production CMOS fabs, now commercially available through licensee Brewer Science. Nantero's extensive intellectual property portfolio currently includes over 100 patent applications, of which over 40 have already been granted.

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Nanowave

vinay1210 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:27:06 +0000

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http://www.nanowave.com/

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info@nanowave.com

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490 Sutton

Zip or postal code

01590

Telephone

888-531-1555 / 857-413-4901

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857-413-4906

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At NanoWave we invent, develop and supply technology for high precision measurement and motion control at the nano-scale. Our technologies have applications in semiconductor, MEMS and optical component manufacturing, biotech instrumentation, information storage, and many other nanotechnology industries.

NanoWave grew out of the research and patented inventions of Dr. Tetsuo Ohara in the 1990's on a powerful new type of position encoder known as the Scanning Probe Position Encoder (SPPE). In 2003, NanoWave demonstrated SPPEs with 13 picometers of resolution using off-the-shelf components, proving that high-precision measurement need not require high-costs. Our SPPE technology is now helping to bring new levels of precision and stability to critical nano-manufacturing processes.

High speed signal processing combined with innovative electro-opto-mechanical devices is at the heart of what we do. To meet the growing performance requirements of today's nano-manufacturing processes, we use Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to enable systems with maximum performance and decreasing cost targets.

Today, NanoWave also brings leading Japanese technologies to the North American market working closely with our supply partners such as Nikon Corp. We support and integrate these technologies with our own, and those of our customers, to further advance the state of the art in measurement and motion control.

Under today's demanding manufacturing environment, performance is not the only factor for business decisions. Total ownership cost, short learning curve, predictable qualification, stability, reliability and reusability are all critical factors. Programmable logic is an ideal solution for this environment where multiple standards exist or constantly change. However, the use of FPGAs and new devices in measurement and motion control has been relatively difficult for many companies to adopt since it usually requires cross-disciplined engineering teams for successful implementation. NanoWave solves these challenges.

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Hyperion Catalysis

vinay1210 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:32:30 +0000

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http://www.fibrils.com/

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info@hyperioncatalysis.com

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38 Smith Place

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02138

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1-617-354-9678

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1-617-354-9691

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Hyperion Catalysis International is the world leader in carbon nanotube development and commercialization.

Founded in 1982 to develop novel forms and morphologies of carbon, Hyperion Catalysis' flagship technology is a conductive, vapor grown, multi-walled carbon nanotube. These tubes are trade named FIBRIL™ nanotubes.

Since the original synthesis of carbon nanotubes in 1983, Hyperion Catalysis has devoted substantial resources to improving the technology of their manufacture and developing their use in a variety of applications. Hyperion Catalysis now supplies FIBRIL nanotubes, pre-mixed, in a range of plastics. These plastic/ nanotube composites are in commercial use in a growing number of automotive and electronics applications. The FIBRIL nanotubes are used to impart electrical conductivity to the plastic in combination with additional benefits that are related to the unique structure of the nanotubes.

Additional applications for our FIBRIL nanotubes are in development and it is expected that they will open a wide range of exciting markets. We encourage you to contact us to discuss how our nanotubes can help you design outstanding new products.

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Nano Science and Technology Institute

vinay1210 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:13:12 +0000

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http://www.nsti.org/

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mlaudon@nsti.org

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Street address

One Kendall Square

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02139

Telephone

(508) 357-2925

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(925) 886-8461

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The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI) is chartered with the promotion and integration of nano and other advanced technologies through education, technology and business development. NSTI accomplishes this mission through its offerings of continuing education programs, scientific and business publishing and community outreach. NSTI produces the annual Nanotech conference and trade show, the most comprehensive international nanotechnology convention in the world. NSTI also produces the semi-annual Nanotech Venture, Nanotech Industrial Impact Workshop, Nano Impact Summit and the Nanotech Course Series in the US and Europe. NSTI was founded in 1997 as a result of the merger between various scientific societies, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional offices in California and Switzerland.