Nanotechnology : Menlo Park

Accurion LLC.

Benj — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:34:04 +0000

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Web url

http://www.accurion.com/

Contact Email

info@accurion.com

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Street address

935 Hamilton Av

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

650-323-2200

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650-323-2282

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Accurion is a US based provider of state-of-the-art research and production instrumentation for the nanoworld. Our expertise is Atomic Force, Scanning Probe, AFM/SPM, Ellipsometry, and Brewster Angle microscopy systems. To compliment our instruments, we provide the highest quality active vibration isolation systems and accessories.

We offer our clients vanguard integrated systems, designed to provide years of reliable results, increased productivity, and quality research all at reasonable modular prices.

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Bay Area Nanotechnology Forum

Benj — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:24:50 +0000

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http://www.bayareananoforum.org/

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Street address

2775 Sand Hill Road

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

1.650.618.1543

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1.650.618.1849

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The Bay Area Nanotechnology Forum is a group of stakeholders in the economic future of the San Francisco Bay Area organized by the Northern California Nanotechnology Initiative. Many groups predict that the Bay Area will be a leader in the next great wave of economic dynamism - nanotechnology and nano-bio-IT convergence technologies.

We are holding a series of events where Bay Area business, academic, R&D, and political leaders are working together to develop the regional nanotechnology and nano-bio-IT convergence clusters.

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BIOIDENT Technologies, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:43:04 +0000

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Web url

http://www.bioident.com/

Contact Email

info@bioident.com

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Street address

3000 Sand Hill Road Building 1, Suite 170

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

+1 650 391 4247, 48

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+1 650 561 9303

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BIOIDENT is the first and only company to combine printed optoelectronics with microfluidics to create a new class of photonic lab-on-a-chip systems, which enable real-time, multi-parameter detection and analysis capabilities. BIOIDENT allows for the first time to integrate full optical readout systems directly onto microfluidic devices. BIOIDENT´s lab-on-chip systems will be used for mobile water and food analysis, chemical and biological agent detection and In-vitro diagnostics. BIOIDENT is a wholly owned subsidiary of NANOIDENT Technologies AG, the technology leader in the development and manufacture of printed organic semiconductor-based photonic solutions.

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Cnano Technology Limited

Benj — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:53:53 +0000

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http://www.cnanotechnology.com/

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Street address

3000 Sand Hill Road, Building One, Suite 170

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

408.826.0918

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650.233.7502

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* Cnano is a technology and product company focusing on carbon nanotube development, productions and applications
* We leverage the best technology and manufacuture cost structure to produce high quality carbon nanotube products at market acceptable prices
* We provide technology solutions based on carbon nanotubes

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Cypress Ventures Management LLC

Benj — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:17:56 +0000

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Web url

http://www.cirventures.com/

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Street address

535 Middlefield Road Suite 100

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

+1 (650) 325-6699

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+1 (650) 325-7799

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Cypress Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage technology investments.

Cypress Ventures was founded in 2002 to manage CIR Ventures, a venture capital fund sponsored by CIR Group, a leading Italian diversified industrial holding company, and part of the De Benedetti Group.

Cypress Ventures invests in companies taking advantage of key emerging technology trends. These trends include pervasive IP networks, ubiquitous wireless communication and nanotechnology evolution.

The Cypress Ventures team brings a strong combination of venture investing and operational experience. Utilizing an entrepreneurial approach to venture investing, the team favors innovation, a team approach and capital efficiency as key elements of portfolio company success.

Cypress Ventures is an active investor, offering experience, hands-on support and introductions to our network of people and companies - in the US, Europe and Asia.

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Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:43:38 +0000

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Web url

http://www.dfj.com/

Contact Email

mail@dfj.com

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Street address

2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 150

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

650-233-9000

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650-233-9233

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Draper Fisher Jurvetson is the leader in seed and early stage venture capital, typically serving as a startup's first outside source of financing. Founded in 1985, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has created a global network of affiliated venture funds with approximately $3 billion in capital commitments and offices in the major technology centers around the world. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm has proven expertise in identifying and helping extraordinary entrepreneurs who want to change the world.

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Fernandez & Associates, LLP

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:34:30 +0000

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Web url

http://www.iploft.com/

Contact Email

iploft@iploft.com

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Street address

1047 El Camino Real, Suite 201

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

(650) 325-4999

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(650) 325-1203

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The Firm specializes in preparing, filing and prosecution of U.S. patent applications, particularly covering advanced and complex electronics and information technologies. Representative technologies include: semiconductor circuit designs, digital and analog communications and network systems and protocol, internet-related client/server software applications, computer-aided design and engineering tools, multi-media, video and storage systems, microprocessor systems, and other electro-mechanical apparatus. In the biotechnology area, technologies include proteomic, biomedical detectors, biogenetics, and bioinformatic systems involved in clinical trial design and secure data management.Special focus is placed in defining strategic scope of patent claims to encompass legal protection over specific novel product features and overall architecture and methodology, as well as potential competitive activity and emerging industry standards.

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Glimmerglass Ltd

Benj — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:12:37 +0000

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Web url

http://www.glimglass.com/

Contact Email

info@glimglass.com

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Street address

325M Sharon Park Drive, Suite 616

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

+1 650 851 0636

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+1 419 735 4482

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The industry knows us. Extensive global contacts make Glimmerglass people known industry wide. We network internationally to facilitate opportunities for client growth and expansion. And of course, we’re on top of current and emerging technologies like MEMS, nanotechnology, 300-mm, and semiconductors.

Glimmerglass brings you payback. We provide solutions to a range of strategic business development challenges. Our experience and contacts with global decision-makers and experts create a synergy that well serves your needs.This is our unfair advantage—make it yours.

A Value Added Investment. In these cost conscious times, engaging the Glimmerglass team of professionals for your strategic development requirements is a prudent investment. We’ll work with you effectively to achieve your goals, and with client service uppermost in our minds, we won’t ever hesitate to let you know when we think our work is done.

Effective enterprise communications. Glimmerglass Ltd.’s communications expertise can help you reach strategically critical audiences, enhance your interaction with the press, and link up with financial, investment, and other important communities. We make it easier for your enterprise to send the right message to the right audience in the right language and assure critical understanding along the two-way street of communication.

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Green Earth Technologies, Inc (GET)

Benj — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:05:21 +0000

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Web url

http://www.getg.com/

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1455 Adams Drive, Suite 2104

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

877.GET.GRN1 (877.438.4761)

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877.GET.FAX3 (877.438.3293)

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Our "eco-logical" products now make it easier for you to GETGreen!™ and, together, we can stand proud knowing that we are making a difference. Our products are made entirely from American grown base oils that are enhanced with the power of nanotechnology and dehydrogenation. Our methods are patented and proprietary - the result is superior performing products that are TOTALLY GREEN! You will not have to sacrifice value or performance in order to GETGreen! and do your part……hence our motto: SAVE THE EARTH – SACRIFICE NOTHING™.

All our products are Ultimate Biodegradable (ASTM Standard’s highest available ranking) which means they are environmentally safe….safe for you, safe for your family, safe around your pets and safe for the earth.

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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Benj — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:41:19 +0000

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Web url

http://www.kpcb.com/

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Street address

2750 Sand Hill Road

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

650-233-2750

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650-233-0300

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For 30 years, we have invested in hundreds of market-defining ventures. We're constantly on the lookout for ideas with the promise to invent new business categories or radically alter existing ones. Our focus is on new technologies and new applications of technology that will drive high-impact change.

Along with technology, the greatest assets businesses have are talented people. That's why our partners put all of our efforts behind strong entrepreneurs who turn concepts into companies.

We help make things happen. We know that it takes more than solid financial support to getting a company off the ground. We've long recognized that collective strength and experience are essential to building a business. We pioneered the idea 20 years ago of bringing the businesses we work with into an informal network, which we call a Keiretsu. Entrepreneurs gain access to our unmatched portfolio of companies and associations with global business leaders. These relationships are the foundations for strategic alliances, partnership opportunities, and the sharing of insights to help build new ventures faster, broader and with less risk.

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McLaughlin Consulting Group ( MCG )

Benj — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:28:35 +0000

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Web url

http://www.mcgweb.com/

Contact Email

info@mcgweb.com

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Street address

945 Hamilton Avenue

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

650 323 1179

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650 319 1805

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McLaughlin Consulting Group offers market and product studies in select markets, assists start-ups in writing business plans and raising funds, conducts technology searches and business assessments for investors, and undertakes a wide range of support for deal-making and technology licensing.

Within displays, areas of focus include: projection and personal displays based on microdisplays, display opportunities in Internet appliances, and plastic substrate and reflective color displays.

Current licensing programs include System Synchronized Brightness Control (SSBC) and StereoMirror™ 3D desktop monitor intellectual property, both inventions of Dr. James L. Fergason.

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NanoSense project

Benj — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:07:08 +0000

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Web url

http://nanosense.org/

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SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue

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94025

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The goal of the NanoSense project is to promote the learning of science concepts that account for nanoscale phenomena. Though these concepts do not represent new scientific understanding, per se, the characteristics and properties of substances exhibited at the nanoscale level is a relatively new focus. We are working closely with chemists, educators, and nanoscientists to generate a set of nanoscience activities that will help students visualize physical, chemical, and biological principles that govern the behavior of particles on the nanoscopic scale.

The materials we are beginning to develop to address nanoscience education needs at the high school level build on previous efforts in our NSF-funded ChemSense project. ChemSense includes a collaborative chemistry visualization environment and several standards-based, high-school-level curricular activities. The goal of the ChemSense project is to help students understand chemical concepts by providing access to rich representational tools that help them visualize the world of molecular entities and reactions. ChemSense makes it possible for students to create–individually or collaboratively–and share–face-to-face or virtually–representations such as drawings and animations of nanoscopic phenomena in a way that readily affords knowledge building in the classroom. Visual representations created in ChemSense also serve as a ready means for formative assessment. By design, student thinking becomes "visible" in ChemSense through the creation of representations. In our prior research with ChemSense, teachers felt they could better assess their students' understanding and provide timely and targeted feedback by simply walking around the classroom and viewing students' visual representations on the computer screen.

By focusing on providing tools, activities, and assessments in an integrated curriculum to allow students to create their own visual representations of nanoscale entities and phenomena, the ChemSense-based materials we plan to develop will complement other current approaches to nanoscience education.

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Nanosyn, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:45:59 +0000

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Web url

http://www.nanosyn.com/

Contact Email

sales@nanosyn.com

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Street address

3760 Haven Ave

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

(650) 853-7030

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(650) 853-7031

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Nansoyn is a privately held, chemistry-based enterprise founded in 1998, by a group of industry experts possessing Ph.D. credentials, specializing in the design, synthesis, and analysis of small molecule organic compounds for the pharmaceutical industry. Our customer base consists of pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic institutions. Nanosyn has a well established track record, encompassing well over a hundred business relationships throughout the United States and the rest of the world. Companys financial scale of contracts varies, since there is no job too big or too small for us.

The original intent of Nanosyn, Inc. creators was solely resting upon concepts of miniaturized chemistry - catering to the true needs of the biotech research sectors for cost-efficient and environmentally-conscientious, nanoscaled compounds. Naturally, with a rapid growth of the company's market share and diversity, Nanosyn evolved into a Chemistry on Demand service provider. Today, we are proud to offer versatile services that are tailored specifically to each and every customer's individual needs. Full utilization of our intellectual resources, proprietary technology, state-of-the-art automation, and robotics enables us to produce compounds in the highest quality which are perfectly suited for the use in quantitative structure-activity related studies, as well as many other biochemical investigations.

In 2000, Nanosyn filed two patents based upon its state-of-the-art core technology - Accelerated Nanoscale Synthesis Technology ANST. Currently Nanosyn exploits this technology to generate revenues, and to continually develop leading edge technology based upon automation, robotics, and computational techniques. Our automated LCMS systems perform over 35,000 analyses per month running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Northern California Nanotechnology Initiative (NCnano)

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:45:11 +0000

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Web url

http://www.ncnano.org/

Contact Email

info@ncnano.org

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Street address

2775 Sand Hill Road

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

1.650.618.1543

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1.650.618.1849

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The Northern California Nanotechnology Initiative, NCnano, is an economic development initiative focused on developing the nanotechnology and the nano-bio-IT convergence technology economy of Northern California.

California's preeminence in cutting edge technologies, venture capital, hi-tech industries, and entrepreneurial spirit is positioning the region to develop the leading nanotechnology cluster in the world. The Northern California Nanotechnology Initiative will lead in the formation of this cluster and will facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to develop the biotechnology, molecular electronics, advanced materials and manufacturing technologies that will dominate science and the economy in the 21st century.

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Quantum Insight, LLC.

Benj — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:42:59 +0000

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Web url

http://www.quantuminsight.com/

Contact Email

info@quantuminsight.com

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Street address

3000 Sand Hill Road, Building 1, Suite 170

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

650-269-4323

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650-561-9303

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Quantum Insightsm enhances the impact of revolutionary technologies by focusing them with sound business judgment. We identify and enable the intersections of emerging new technologies with large markets. We achieve our mission by utilizing our global business and technical networks to create effective channels and opportunities.

Quantum Insightsm is the pioneering business strategy services firm in the field of emerging new materials and nanotechnology. Our customer list includes Fortune 500 companies as well as venture and corporate funds.
We provide strategic business and market development services to companies active or interested in the fields of emerging new materials and nanotechnology. With our services, companies rapidly identify and confidently build new businesses in the area of nanotechnology. We help convert their existing or new IP into revenue streams.

We also provide investment research, targeted deal sourcing and due diligence services to venture and corporate funds seeking to build new technology startups. Quantum Insightsm provides a capital efficient path to high-quality deal flow and deal assessment for reduced overall investment risk.

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Sherman & Associates, Inc.

Benj — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:28:48 +0000

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Web url

http://www.artsherman.com/

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Street address

600 Sharon Park Drive, Suite C-307

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

650-233-0865

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650-233-0866

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Dr. Arthur Sherman has been an active researcher in fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and thin film deposition for semiconductor fabrication for many years. In the latter area he has carried out pioneering developments in chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and more recently atomic layer deposition (ALD). He has published over 50 papers, and two reference texts. As well as being the holder of seven US patents, he has also participated as an Expert Witness in several patent litigation cases.

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SmallTech Consulting, LLC

Benj — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:58:53 +0000

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Web url

http://www.smalltechllc.com/

Contact Email

info@smalltechconsulting.com

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Street address

325 Sharon Park Drive #632

Zip or postal code

94025

Telephone

(650) 823-2020

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(440) 551-5911

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SmallTech Consulting provides expert consulting services in the highly specialized fields of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnology. SmallTech's technical depth in micro-scale and nano-scale technologies combined with solid business experience provides a high-quality means to leverage your company's in-house resources.

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SRI International

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:04:16 +0000

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Web url

http://www.sri.com/

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Street address

333 Ravenswood Avenue

Zip or postal code

94025-3493

Telephone

650-859-2000

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650-326-5512

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SRI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute that conducts client-supported research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. To help bring its innovations to the marketplace, SRI licenses our technologies and creates new ventures.
The NanoSense curriculum will include classroom-tested activities to help high school students understand the underlying principles, applications and implications of nanoscale science. Some of the activities will be simple, one-day enrichment activities, and others will span several class periods.

These activities will be conducted in science-related classrooms at five high schools prior to national dissemination. Teachers will work with the NanoSense team to advise on activity development and conduct pilot tests. A few hundred students are expected to engage in program activities.

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Unidym, Inc.

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

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Web url

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.