We would like to thank our attendees, speakers and sponsors who participated in our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/ held in Boston last week September 25-27th.

And from our lost and found department . . . and don’t say I have lost my mind, 3 items were left at the Conference:
– a Motorola cell phone charger
– a black & white composition notebook with notes from the nano conference sessions
– and a pair of eyeglasses
Please let me know if they belong to you and I will ship them to you.

We had over 60 speakers and leaders in the Nanotechnology Community such as:
– Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
– George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
– Ross Kozarsky, Analyst, Lux Research
– Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
– J. Steven Rutt, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
– Peter L. Antoinette, President & CEO, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.
– Mostafa Analoui, PhD, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Livingston Securities
– Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
– Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
– Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network
– Fern O’Brian, Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
– Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
– Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
– Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink
– David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
– Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
– Griffith Kundahl, Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)

Next week we will be sending a comprehensive review and analysis of the conference.

As the Boston event comes to a close, we are preparing for our Rocky Mountain High!
Our 4th Annual Nano Energy Summit http://www.nanoenergysummit.org/index.php will be held at the Colorado School of Mines on Tuesday, October 25th and the Nano Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on Wednesday, October 26th in Golden, CO.

AGENDA http://www.nanoenergysummit.org/program.php

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NANO NEWS
IBM, Intel Start $4.4 Billion Chip Venture in New York
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/27/bloomberg_articlesLS70QB6K50XS.DTL

Lux Capital Fall 2011 Updates
http://luxcapital.com/newsletter/fall_2011.html

Dr. E. Clayton Teague Joins Pixelligent’s Advisory Board
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dr-e-clayton-teague-joins-pixelligents-advisory-board-129899808.html

Quantum dot technology brings richer colors to TVs (video)
http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/30/quantum-dot-technology-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+%28VentureBeat%29

Thank you all for your participation in Boston and I look forward to seeing many of you in Denver.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

Our Conference agenda http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program has over 50 speakers from our Nano Community. I hope you can join us at our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/.

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA.
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx

REGISTER TODAY
Industry/Government $400
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

SUNDAY, September 25, 2011
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception
– Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network
– Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association

MONDAY, September 26, 2011
KEYNOTES
8:30-9:00 Senator Scott Brown – (R)-MA (Invited)

9:00-9:30 Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO

9:30-10:00 George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel

10:00-10:30 Ross Kozarsky, Analyst, Lux Research

1:15-2:00 Peter L. Antoinette, President & CEO, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.

4:00-4:30 Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities

4:30-5:00 Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group

SPEAKERS
8:25 Opening Remarks
– Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network
– Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association

10:30-12:30 What’s up with EPA and NIOSH and NANO: An Interactive Discussion with EHS Experts
– Session Chair: Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
– Charles Geraci, PhD, Coordinator, Nanotechnology Research Center, NIOSH
– Kenneth T. Moss, Nanotech Team Leader, USEPA, New Chemicals Management Branch, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
– Mark A. Banash, PhD, Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.

10:30-11:30 A New Patent Era! Reform and Recent Court Decisions Impacting IP Strategy and Valuation
– Moderator: J. Steven Rutt, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
– Nina Pearlmutter, Intellectual Property Counsel, Qteros
– Julie Heinrich, Intellectual Property Counsel, Plextronics
– Henning Richter, Director of Materials Synthesis Research, Nano-C

11:30-12:00 Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Nanostructured Materials and Devices
– James Watkins, Director, NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, University of Massachusetts Amherst

12:00-12:30 Ahmed Busnaina, Director, Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University

2:00-4:00 Nanomedicine and NanoDiagnostics: Innovation, Regulation, and Investment
– Session Chair: Mostafa Analoui, PhD, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Livingston Securities
– Dr. Paul Ashton, CEO & President, pSivida
– Piotr Grodzinski, PhD, Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, National Cancer Institute
– Omid Farokhzad, MD, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Co-Founder of Bind Biosciences, Selecta Biosciences
– Subhas Malghan, PhD, FDA, Deputy Director in the Office of Science and Eng Lab, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)
– Misti Ushio, PhD, Managing Director, Harris & Harris
– Anil Diwan, PhD, Chairman & President, Nanoviricides, Inc

2:00-3:00 High Performance Green Nanomaterials for Electronics & Industrial Applications
– Doug Keszler, Founder/CSO of Inpria Corp., Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Oregon State University
– David C. Johnson, Rosaria Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure & Applied Chemistry, University of Oregon
– Judy Giordan, Partner, ecosVC
– Robert D. “Skip” Rung, President & Executive Director, ONAMI

3:00-4:00 Regulating Tiny Technology: Big Impact on Innovation and Commercialization
– Fern O’Brian, Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
– John Mitchell, Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
– Troy Prince, Associate, Thompson Hine LLP

TUESDAY, September 27, 2011
KEYNOTES
8:30-8:40 Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group

8:40-9:05 Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm

9:05-9:30 Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation

9:30-10:00 Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink

10:00-10:30 David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.

1:15-2:00 Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech

4:30-5:00 Carrie Freeman, Director, Sustainable Business Innovation, Intel

5:00-5:30 William Wescott, Vice President, Innovation-Americas, Veolia Environnement North America Operations LLC

SPEAKERS
8:25 Opening Remarks
– Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
– Griffith Kundahl, Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)
– Session Chair: Laura Faulconer, PhD, Director of Innovation Projects, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)

10:30-11:00 Jess Jankowski, President & CEO, Nanophase

10:30-11:00 T. Joseph Fisher, III, CEO, Contour Energy

11:00-11:30 DOE User Programs: Opportunities for Commercialization
– David A. Bunzow, User Facilities Program Manager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

11:00-11:30 Jill Becker, PhD, Founder, Cambridge NanoTech

11:30-12:00 Ajay Malshe, Founder & EVP/Chief Technology Officer (CTO), NanoMech LLC

11:30-12:30 Pharma IP Evergreening Strategies (i.e., Patent Extension) Using Nanotechnology
– Jeffrey Rosedale, PhD, Attorney, Woodcock Washburn

12:00-12:30 Craig Bandes, CEO, Pixelligent Technologies

2:00-2:30 Commercializing Nanotechnology – The Benefits of the Split Plasma Technique
– Michael Foley, Founder/President, Cheap Tubes Inc.

2:00-2:30 Quantum Dot Commercialization Opportunities
– Frank Ignazzitto, Vice President, Government Business, QD Vision, Inc

2:30-3:00 Best Practices of Commercializing Nanotechnology in EU & Case Finland
– Dr. Eeva Viinikka, Business Director, Programme Director of National Nanotechnology Cluster Programme, Culminatum Innovation Ltd Oy

2:30-3:00 Plasmonic Nanomanufacturing
– Cheng Sun, NSF Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing

3:00-3:30 Mike Milburn, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Metabolon

3:00-4:00 Advancements in NanoManufacturing Enabled by NIST and TIP Partnerships
– Moderator: Thomas Wiggins, Director of TIP Selection Management Office, NIST
– Derek A. Schorzman, Ph.D., Principal Process Engineer, Liquidia Technologies, Inc.
– Jayesh Doshi, eSpin Technologies, Inc.

3:30-4:00 Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials – Current and Emerging Markets
– Dr. Thomas Abraham, Innovative Research and Products, Inc.

4:00-4:30 2011-2012 Legislative Update
– Phil Lippel, PhD, Nanotechnology Consultant
– Joe Piche, CEO, Eikos
– Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association

Looking forward to seeing you next week.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

Great interview this month with Jason Hartlove, President & CEO of Nanosys, Inc. Before we begin the interview, I would like to remind the Nanotechnology Community that our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference http://www.internano.org/nms2011/ is less than 3 weeks away.

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA.
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx

Our Conference agenda http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program has over 50 speakers from our Nano Community.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Industry/Government $400
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University/Academia $200
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In this month’s interview, we talk to Jason Hartlove, President & CEO of Nanosys, Inc. Jason has a track record of building and leading innovative companies and business units by driving emerging technologies from R&D to market application. Prior to joining Nanosys he was President of MagnaChip Semiconductor and was responsible for managing all business activities for the Imaging Solutions Division headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Prior to MagnaChip, Mr. Hartlove served as Vice President and General Manager for the Sensor Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies and its parent company Hewlett-Packard. Working in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories from 1996, he developed the first commercial implementations of optical position sensing used in optical mice and CMOS image sensor technologies for the company. Mr. Hartlove is the author of more than 20 patents, including the winner of the Hewlett Award in 2004 for best patent in Agilent Technologies. He has also worked in a variety of manufacturing, R&D and marketing roles in semiconductor technologies including MEMS, III -V, bipolar, CMOS and BCD process technologies. Mr. Hartlove holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from UCLA and has completed graduate work at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

In our interview, we discuss Nanosys’ strategic direction under Jason’s leadership and some of the company’s innovative nano-enabled lighting and energy storage products. We hope you enjoy the interview with Jason Hartlove. – Steve Waite, Director of Research and Strategy

SW: It is a pleasure to speak with you, Jason. We thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk about Nanosys. You’ve been the CEO of Nanosys since the fall of 2008. Tell us how you have repositioned the company strategically coming out of the Great Recession and the rationale for it.

JH: Thank you, Steve. I’d be happy to share my experience with Nanosys. Since taking the role of CEO, I’ve focused the company on developing products based on our architected materials that solve tough problems in high growth-potential markets. Taking a look at the company when I arrived we had one of the largest nanotech patent portfolios in the world and a uniquely experienced R&D staff. But barely any of this technology was in use in industry. It was clear that while we were well positioned with a great science and technology foundation, we had to drive the commercialization if we wanted to see a good outcome in any reasonable period of time.

Solid state lighting and energy storage are two such markets that the company is attacking today. In both cases it was immediately obvious in talking to customers that simply selling them raw materials, such as kilograms of quantum dots or kilotons of nanowires was not going to be a workable strategy. They did not have enough experience with these new materials to do the process integration, or to redesign their processes to accommodate them. So, in order to succeed, we needed to do some of the heavy lifting ourselves in terms of taking these amazing materials and engineering them into “process ready” components or components that fit seamlessly into existing manufacturing paradigms.

SW: Your description of Nanosys as an “architected materials solution company” sounds like a recipe for accelerating nano-enabled innovation in the years ahead. What is the role of the science of nanotechnology in bringing innovative, architected materials solutions to the market?

JH: Nanotechnology is what gives us the novel and highly valuable properties of our solutions, but our customers need more than just this. They need these nanomaterials to be integrated into inks that can be printed, films that can be deposited, etc. To do so requires us to become proficient in a variety of disciplines. For example, to develop a product like Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF™) for high color gamut displays we relied on contributions from organo-metalic chemists, polymer chemists, organic chemists, physicists, optics experts and more. So, the end result, a optical sheet which appears to be a fairly simple solution at face value, is in fact a very complex optical component that required a sophisticated approach..

SW: Nanosys has a large nanotech patent estate whose value is difficult to estimate today. How many nanotech patents has the company been issued to date and what is the strategy with respect to monetizing Nanosys’ large patent portfolio?

JH: Nanosys was founded and built upon a strong IP portfolio, which today includes over 750 patents and pre-grant applications. While each of those has an inherent value, the real value is in taking the technology to market and every one of our patents plays a role in the commercialization of our products. For example, we hold roughly 400 patents and applications for the various technologies and processes that went into our newest product, the Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF™).

SW: Nanosys is focused on two areas of commercialization today: LED lighting solution and energy storage. What is the rationale behind focusing on those two markets?

JH: When I came on board Nanosys had developed technologies across a broad range of applications. Looking at both our internal development progress and market potential there was an excellent alignment with both industries. Consumers and manufacturers alike have expressed great need for better quality, high efficiency color displays and longer lasting batteries. For example, we see the addressable markets for our lighting solutions growing to over $900M in 2012. With the adoption and growth of electric vehicles, the lithium ion battery market could be greater than $50B per year by 2020. The core technologies we have at Nanosys are well aligned to provide unique value in these markets. So, the combination of competence, deep scientific knowledge of materials that provide a strong value to the markets, and the growth rate of the markets are all factors that we weighed in making the decision on where to focus.

SW: Nanosys’ Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF™) was featured earlier this year in The Economist. It appears you may have a hit product in the lighting market on your hands. Tell us about the technology and its applications in the marketplace.

JH: Sure. Quantum Dot Enhancement Film, or QDEF™, is an optical film component for LED backlit LCD displays. Based on Nanosys’ proprietary high efficiency Quantum Dot Phosphors, the QDEF™ enables a new level of LCD display performance by providing a high quality, tri-color white light from a standard blue LED light source.

The QDEF™’s active material is composed of Nanosys’ proprietary, high efficiency quantum dot phosphors. Larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus, these tiny phosphors convert blue light from a standard GaN LED into different wavelengths based upon their size. Larger dots emit longer wavelengths (red), while smaller dots emit shorter wavelengths (green). By blending together a mix of dot colors Nanosys can engineer a new spectrum of light. This allows LCD manufacturers to accurately match their LED backlight to their LCD color filters to achieve the best possible color and efficiency performance. The result is professional photo and cinema level color performance in the palm of your hand or on your living room wall.

Nanosys Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF™) enables LCD display manufacturers to deliver a better visual experience using their existing manufacturing processes, at a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Architected from quantum dots, Nanosys’ QDEF™ improves color gamut, saturation and brightness from LED sources using widely available material, while delivering higher power efficiency and lower cost than alternatives like OLED.

SW: Let’s talk about Nanosys’ energy storage technology. What is the nano-enabled energy technology you are developing and what type of near term commercial applications do you foresee in the market?

JH: Improvements in battery capacity have historically been quite slow, far outpaced by our demand for more features in our mobile devices and, now, range in our cars. People in the battery industry talk about a “Moore’s Law” for batteries, which equates to about a decade per doubling of capacity. Part of the problem is that, looking at the periodic table, some of the best elements in terms of energy storage potential are also the hardest to work with. For example, although it has a very high capacity for lithium insertion, no one has been able to make a stable battery using bulk silicon. So, manufacturers have been limited to making process improvements using graphites, things like squeezing more materials onto their electrodes by compressing them or using thinner and thinner electrode substrates. However, there is a practical limit to process improvements and the rate with which they can be made.

This is where Nanosys comes in- by architecting materials we are able to solve some of the problems limiting the use of new compounds. Our SiNANOde™ material, a silicon-carbon composite anode material for lithium-ion batteries, has a unique morphology that manages lithium insertion in a way that doesn’t cause cyclic damage. This mitigates the swelling effect from conventional, non-architected or bulk silicon structures.

The end result is a battery that holds more than double the charge without significant changes to manufacturing process. This kind of dramatic change means you can start thinking about achieving the industry’s cost goal of $250/kWh and taking EV adoption to the next level.

As far as adoption, we see immediate applications for SiNANOde™ in IT devices like cell phones, digital cameras, and notebook computers. Qualification timing is relatively short for electronics vs. automotive applications, which take quite a bit longer. So we are working here first and planning to move into EVs over time.

In the medium term we think that SiNANOde™ is well suited for use in traction applications such as EV, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and personal mobility (LEV). Energy density remains a critical problem for the electric car. If you look at a typical EV today they are wasting a lot of energy carrying the weight of the batteries down the road.

SW: What kinds of challenges do you see in the future for Nanosys in terms of commercializing innovative nano-enabled products?

JH: I see our biggest challenge as being able to scale up manufacturing to keep up with demand, which isn’t a bad problem to have. Our facility in Palo Alto is more than capable of meeting current customer demand, but we also have a plan in place to increase our capacity while managing quality control and distribution.

SW: Nanosys has a global reach with key strategic partners all over the world. Do you see a big competitive advantage to having a global reach in nanotechnology today?

JH: Absolutely. If you are working with OEMs like we are, then you have to have a presence in their countries of operation. Last year, we opened an office in Korea specifically for this purpose. We believe very strongly in maintaining our core operations here in the U.S. due to the skilled labor available here, but also operate globally with the largest automobile and electronics manufacturers in the world.

SW: Last question for you today, Jason. Where do see Nanosys heading in the next 3-5 years?

JH: I see Nanosys-enabled products in the hands of hundreds of millions of consumers providing higher quality and efficient displays, longer lasting electronics and being a part of EVs that match combustion vehicles in range capacity.

SW: Thanks again for your time, Jason. It was a pleasure speaking with you. We wish you and your colleagues at Nanosys all the best in the future.

Looking forward to seeing you in Boston at our 10th Annual Conference.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

Our Conference agenda http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program has over 50 speakers from our Nano Community. I hope you can join us at our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/.

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA.
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx

REGISTER TODAY
Industry/Government $400
$500 after September 6, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
$250 after September 6, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

REGISTER FOR HOTEL TODAY
Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/
DEADLINE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 – We have sold out our room block for 9 years.
$219 per night
Room block: Nano Conference

3rd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & POSTERS
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/call

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Monday, September 26, 2011
– 8:30-9:00 Senator Scott Brown (R)-MA (Invited)
– 9:00-9:30 Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
– 9:30-10:00 George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
– 10:00-10:30 Josh Wolfe, Founding & Managing General Partner, Lux Capital
– 1:15-2:00 Peter L. Antoinette, President & CEO, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.
– 4:00-4:30 Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
– 4:30-5:00 Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
– 8:30-9:00 Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
– 9:00-9:30 Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
– 9:30-10:00 Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink
– 10:00-10:30 David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
– 1:15-2:00 Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
– 4:00-4:30 Carrie Freeman, Director, Sustainable Business Innovation, Intel
– 4:30-5:00 William Wescott, Vice President, Innovation-Americas, Veolia Environnement North America Operations LLC (Invited)

NANO NEWS
The National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office has an immediate opening for science policy analyst based in Arlington, VA. You can view the job description at:
http://jobview.monster.com/Policy-Analyst-in-Nanotechnology-Job-Arlington-VA-101750642.aspx

Solazyme Ranks No. 2 in Inc. 500; Numerous Bay Area Firms Make List
http://www.siliconvalleywire.com/svw/2011/08/solazyme-ranks-no-2-in-inc-500-numerous-bay-area-firms-make-list.html

Market forecast for off-grid generation and storage by technology – Lux Research
http://www.luxresearchinc.com/blog/2011/08/market-forecast-for-off-grid-generation-and-storage-by-technology/

Global Metabolomics Market to Reach $863.8 Million by 2017, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
http://business.itbusinessnet.com/article/Global-Metabolomics-Market-to-Reach-8638-Million-by-2017-According-to-a-New-Report-by-Global-Industry-Analysts-Inc-1645668

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. To Host A Webinar On TSCA Chemical Data Reporting Rule
SAVE THE DATE – September 15, 2011
http://www.lawbc.com/news/

Please remember to register for your hotel room today http://www.seaportboston.com/. See you in Boston.

Today, I am proud to announce that Griffith Kundahl has been named Executive Director of the Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN) www.ncbiotech.org, located in Research Triangle Park, NC. COIN is a non-profit commercialization center dedicated to the development and growth of nanobiotechnology related industries. I have known Griff for 10 years as he has been the General Counsel for NanoBusiness www.nanobca.org since our formation in November 2001. Please join me in a round of applause congratulating Griff on his new position.

Griff will be joining us at our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/, September 25th-27th being held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx .

I am really excited to hear our 2011 Keynotes. See the rest of our fantastic speaker line-up here
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Monday, September 26, 2011
– 8:30-9:00 Senator Scott Brown (R)-MA (Invited)
– 9:00-9:30 Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
– 9:30-10:00 George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
– 10:00-10:30 Josh Wolfe, Founding & Managing General Partner, Lux Capital
– 1:15-2:00 Chris Anzalone, PhD, President & CEO, Arrowhead Research
– 4:00-4:30 Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
– 4:30-5:00 Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
– 8:30-9:00 Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
– 9:00-9:30 Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
– 9:30-10:00 Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink
– 10:00-10:30 David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
– 1:15-2:00 Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
– 4:00-4:30 Carrie Freeman, Director, Sustainable Business Innovation, Intel
– 4:30-5:00 William Wescott, Vice President, Innovation-Americas, Veolia Environnement North America Operations LLC (Invited)

REGISTER TODAY
Industry/Government $400
$500 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
$250 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM TODAY
THE DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2011 – We have sold out our room block for 9 years.
$219 per night
Room block: Nano Conference
Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/

2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & POSTERS
Accepted until Friday, August 26, 2011
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/call

NANO NEWS
EPA Invites Public Input on Its Planned Process for Identifying Priority Chemicals under TSCA
http://www.lawbc.com/tsca/commentary-2011-18-mobile.html

Harris & Harris Group Announces Investment in HzO, Inc.
http://www.tinytechvc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=599321

Bridgelux Announces New Breakthrough in Technology for Solid-State Lighting
http://www.tinytechvc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=598969

Lufthansa launches first scheduled flights using biofuel
http://presse.lufthansa.com/en/news-releases/singleview/archive/2011/july/15/article/1980.html

Griff and I will see you in September.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

Our show program is 90% complete for our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/.

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at:
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Industry/Government $400
$500 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
$250 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

REGISTER FOR HOTEL TODAY
Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2011 – We have sold out our room block for 9 years.
$219 per night
Room block: Nano Conference

2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & POSTERS
Accepted until Friday, August 26, 2011
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/call

Our 2011 Agenda is dynamic:
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
8:30-9:00 Senator Scott Brown (R)-MA (Invited)
http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/

9:00-9:30 Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
http://www.nsti.org/events/NNI/bio.html?id=54

9:30-10:00 George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
http://www.nanobusiness2010.com/speakers

10:00-10:30 Josh Wolfe, Founding & Managing General Partner, Lux Capital
http://www.luxcapital.com/team_wolfe.php

1:15-2:00 Chris Anzalone, PhD, President & CEO, Arrowhead Research
http://www.arrowheadresearch.com/management.html

4:00-4:30 Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

4:30-5:00 Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
http://www.tinytechvc.com/team.cfm

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
10:30-12:30 EHS
Session Chair: Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
http://www.lawbc.com/about/professional-resumes/attorneys-shareholders/

Charles L. Geraci, Jr., Ph.D., CIH, Senior Scientist & Coordinator of the Nanotechnology Research Center at NIOSH
http://www.cihconline.com/conf08_presentations/Completed%20Presentations/11.0%20CLGeraci%20Bio%20Sketch%2010-2008.pdf

Jim Alwood, Program Manager, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics’ Chemical Control Division, US EPA

Kenneth T. Moss, Leader, Notice & Regulations Team #2, US EPA, New Chemicals Management Branch, Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics

10:30-11:30 Foley & Lardner LLP “Protecting your IP”
Steven Rutt, Partner & Chair of Nanotechnology Industry Team, Foley & Lardner LLP
http://www.foley.com/people/bio.aspx?employeeid=18776

2:00-4:00 Nanomedicine and NanoDiagnostics: Innovation, Regulation, and Investment
Session Chair: Mostafa Analoui, PhD, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Livingston Securities
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

Dr. Paul Ashton, CEO & President, Psivida
http://www.psivida.com/about-leadership.html

Piotr Grodzinski, PhD, Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, National Cancer Institute
http://nano.cancer.gov/about/meet/alliance.asp#Grodzinski

Omid Farokhzad, MD, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Co-Founder of Bind Biosciences, Selecta Biosciences
http://farokhzad.bwh.harvard.edu/

Subhas Malghan, PhD, FDA, Deputy Director in the Office of Science & Engineering Lab, Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH)
http://www.almevents.com/admin/apps/Person/PersonView.cfm?person_id=39323

Misti Ushio, PhD, Managing Director, Harris & Harris
http://www.tinytechvc.com/team.cfm

Anil Diwan, PhD, Chairman & President, Nanoviricides, Inc
http://www.nanoviricides.com/diwan.html

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
8:30-9:00 Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
http://www.nanofilmtechnology.com/about_nanofilm/bio-scott.htm

9:00-9:30 Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/staff/mroco.jsp

9:30-10:00 Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink
http://www.nanoink.net/management-team.html

10:00-10:30 David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
http://www.swentnano.com/about/management.php

1:15-2:00 Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
10:30-11:00 Nanotechnology Commercialization
Jess Jankowski, President & CEO, Nanophase
http://www.nanophase.com/about/executives.aspx?

10:30-11:00 Cleantech
Joe Fisher, CEO, Contour Energy
http://contourenergy.com/company/management_team.html

11:30-12:00 Nanotechnology Commercialization
Dr. Ajay Malshe, Executive Vice President & CTO, NanoMech
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

11:30-12:00 Cleantech
Tim Lester, CFO, Bridgelux (Invited)

2:00-2:30 Electronics
Michael Knapp, CEO, Cambrios (Invited)
http://cambrios.sitestreet.org/45/Bio_Michael_R_Knapp.htm

2:00-2:30 Nanomanufacturing
Frank Ignazzitto, Vice President, Government Business, QD Vision, Inc
http://www.qdvision.com/ignazzitto

3:00-3:30 Healthcare
Mike Milburn, Chief Scientific Officer, Metabolon
http://www.metabolon.com/about/Management.aspx

NANO NEWS – WEEKLY SUMMARY
Harris & Harris
Equity Research Coverage: Capitalizing on 10x Change
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d089f37e2290f94c07def3214/files/Harris_and_Harris_Update_July_29_2011.pdf

Solazyme and Cobalt Technologies Ranked Among the “30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Materials”
http://www.tinytechvc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=594801
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Six Ways I Know Nanotechnology is Here to Stay
By Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Nanofilm
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/six_ways_i_know_nanotechnology_is_here_to_stay_25035.aspx

Obama vs. the 1980s Tax reform – not an infrastructure bank – might save his presidency.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903454504576490083559745242.html?KEYWORDS=george+gilder

Please remember to register for your hotel room today http://www.seaportboston.com/. See you in September.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

We are excited to update you on our Keynote/Speaker lineup for our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/.

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at:
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx

REGISTER FOR HOTEL TODAY
Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2011 – We have sold out our room block for 9 years.
$219 per night
Room block: Nano Conference

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Industry/Government $400
$500 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
$250 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & POSTERS
Accepted until Friday, August 26, 2011
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/call

OUR 2011 AGENDA IS TAKING SHAPE
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
8:30-9:00 Senator Scott Brown (R)-MA (Invited)
http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/

9:00-9:30 Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
http://www.nsti.org/events/NNI/bio.html?id=54

9:30-10:00 George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
http://www.nanobusiness2010.com/speakers

10:00-10:30 Josh Wolfe, Founding & Managing General Partner, Lux Capital
http://www.luxcapital.com/team_wolfe.php

4:00-4:30 Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

4:30-5:00 Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
http://www.tinytechvc.com/team.cfm

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
10:30-12:30 EHS
Session Chair: Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
http://www.lawbc.com/about/professional-resumes/attorneys-shareholders/

10:30-11:30 Foley & Lardner LLP “Protecting your IP”
Steven Rutt, Partner & Chair of Nanotechnology Industry Team, Foley & Lardner LLP
http://www.foley.com/people/bio.aspx?employeeid=18776

2:00-4:00 Nanomedicine
Session Chair: Mostafa Analoui, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Livingston Securities
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
8:30-9:00 Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
http://www.nanofilmtechnology.com/about_nanofilm/bio-scott.htm

9:00-9:30 Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/staff/mroco.jsp

9:30-10:00 Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink
http://www.nanoink.net/management-team.html

10:00-10:30 David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
http://www.swentnano.com/about/management.php

1:15-2:00 Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
10:30-11:00 Nanotechnology Commercialization
Jess Jankowski, President & CEO, Nanophase
http://www.nanophase.com/about/executives.aspx?

10:30-11:00 Cleantech
Joe Fisher, CEO, Contour Energy
http://contourenergy.com/company/management_team.html

11:30-12:00 Nanotechnology Commercialization
Dr. Ajay Malshe, Executive Vice President & CTO, NanoMech
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

11:30-12:00 Cleantech
Tim Lester, CFO, Bridgelux (Invited)

2:00-2:30 Electronics
Michael Knapp, CEO, Cambrios (Invited)
http://cambrios.sitestreet.org/45/Bio_Michael_R_Knapp.htm

2:00-2:30 Nanomanufacturing
Frank Ignazzitto, Vice President, Government Business, QD Vision, Inc
http://www.qdvision.com/ignazzitto

3:00-3:30 Healthcare
Mike Milburn, Chief Scientific Officer, Metabolon
http://www.metabolon.com/about/Management.aspx

NANO NEWS – WEEKLY SUMMARY
13 startup stars on the verge of an IPO
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/technology/1107/gallery.ipo_startups.fortune/9.html

DuPont Expands in Solar Energy with Acquisition of Innovalight
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dupont-expands-in-solar-energy-with-acquisition-of-innovalight-126111963.html

Want To Be A Venture Capitalist? Invest In These 2 Stocks
http://www.istockanalyst.com/finance/story/5327688/want-to-be-a-venture-capitalist-invest-in-these-2-stocks

EPA Announces Chemical Data Reporting Rule, Which Replaces the IUR Modifications Rule
http://www.lawbc.com/tsca/commentary-2011-17-mobile.html

New Legislation Would Green Electronics Like iPods, Commercialize Nanotech
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/22734

Please remember to register your hotel room today for our September conference in Boston.

Stay cool, use sunscreen and drink plenty of water.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

In this month’s interview, we talk to Michael R. Knapp, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambrios. Michael is a scientist and successful entrepreneur. Prior to joining Cambrios, Dr. Knapp co-founded and was CEO of Caliper Life Sciences (Nasdaq: CALP), then known as Caliper Technologies, and played an integral role in the creation and development of the company. Dr. Knapp also co-founded Amphora Discovery Corp., a chemical genomics company that was formed from within Caliper with independent funding and management. Before starting Caliper, Dr. Knapp served as President and Scientific Director at Molecular Tool, Inc., a genetics technology company that he co-founded. Dr. Knapp also served on the staff of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University and was Scientific Director of Genetica SARL, an affiliate of Rhone Poulenc SA in Paris, France. Dr. Knapp holds a B.S. in Biology from Trinity College (Hartford) and a Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from Stanford University.

In our interview, we speak to Michael about Cambrios’ commercialization activity and the role nanotechnology plays in that activity. We hope you enjoy the interview with Michael Knapp.

– Steve Waite, Director of Research and Strategy

SW: Great to be speaking with you today, Michael. We’ve seen some recent announcements in the media from Cambrios. Can you summarize for us what has been going on over the past year at Cambrios?

MK: The biggest thing that happened last year, arguably the biggest thing that has ever happened to our young company, is that a smartphone came on the market that contained our ClearOhm™ transparent electrode as part of its multi-touch screen. The touch sensor for this phone was manufactured by the touch panel leader Nissha Printing of Kyoto and the touch sensor was manufactured by Synaptics of Santa Clara. This was an incredible moment for us. We will have lots of things to celebrate at Cambrios in the future, but you can only celebrate your first commercial product once.

Other developments include the establishment of significant commercial relationships with hugely important companies including Toray Advanced Films, that announced a product line of films having a ClearOhm™ transparent conductive layer, and Synaptics, that will be working with end customers in the touch sensor supply chain to produce reference designs for multi-touch sensors that make use of ClearOhm™ material. Toray Advanced Films & Synaptics are major suppliers to Touch Sensor manufacturers. We also raised a significant amount of equity capital, most of it from strategic corporate investors – companies that are actively working to build a business around ClearOhm™ material.

In other applications areas, thanks to contracts with the Departments of Energy and Defense, we have made significant progress in adapting our material for organic LED lighting devices and CIGS-based photovoltaic cells.

We are actively selling our ClearOhm™ material and ClearOhm™-coated PET film. Revenues are rapidly increasing. We’re hoping to break even in 2012.

SW: Your first major commercial product is a transparent electrode. Why transparent electrodes?

MK: We started out as a technology company seeking a product idea. After working on a number of applications, we judged that the best use of our technology would be in the creation of a high quality, lower cost option for making a transparent electrode. It’s a very large market with big needs. Nanomarkets, LLC, estimated last year that the 2010 market would be around $2.5 billion. This is a huge size for a single material. As a small company, we have to focus. The transparent conductor market allows us to do that with respect to product development and manufacturing, and still have a big opportunity. In addition, we were able to develop a high performance manufacturing method and we can address large parts of that market ourselves. There is significant and growing customer pull for a new material and that’s always important for a young company. That’s important because while we feel good about taking a big technology risk, we don’t want to face market risk that could delay the growth of our business. Finally, even though the market is large now based on Flat Panel Displays and touch screens, its growth will accelerate based on new applications such as solid state lighting, e-paper displays, and thin film photovoltaics. And for these applications, the incumbent material, indium tin oxide (ITO), is not a great choice.

SW: Tell us more about your nano-enabled transparent electrode technology. What makes it special and innovative relative to other electrodes in the marketplace?

MK: Our ClearOhm™ coating material creates a transparent electrode that is not at all like a transparent conductive oxide (TCO). TCOs like ITO are created by a high vacuum sputtering process and produce a continuous ceramic film that has relatively low conductivity. By comparison, we manufacture highly crystalline, high aspect ratio, nanowires made of silver, the most conductive element. Silver is almost 100 times more conductive than ITO. As a result, a film of equivalent electrical performance to ITO has almost 100 times less material on the surface of the substrate. We formulate our nanowires into a suspension tuned to work with off-the-shelf wet coating manufacturing equipment already used in electronics factories. Wet coating is much less expensive than vacuum sputtering. In depositing the coating suspension on a substrate we form a nanowire mesh through which electrons can percolate and create a current across even very large substrates – we currently coat our ClearOhm™ coating material on rolls of plastic film that are more than 1 meter wide and kilometers long.

Because so little material is on the surface, the resulting film is more transparent. It has a better color than ITO films of equivalent performance, and because it is not a ceramic material, the film is completely bendable. It is intrinsically less expensive, and the process benefits can be large. It won’t be long before the material can be printed in very fine features. That could eliminate expensive photo-patterning steps. Finally, we can achieve much higher conductivity on film than is possible with ITO, and this is crucial for emerging display markets.

In short, ClearOhm™ material produces just what the industry wants in technology evolution: the opportunity to have higher performance at lower cost.

SW: What role does the science of nanotechnology play in Cambrios’ transparent electrode?

MK: Cambrios scientists have drawn on the science of nanotechnology to create accurate computer models of how different aspects of the silver nanowires and suspensions of these particles quantitatively contribute to the performance of the resulting film. By comparing the actual performance of the materials to the models, great progress can be made. As with many areas of nanotechnology, there are surprising effects that force us to adjust our view of how our nanowires interact with things like light, heat, chemical attack, etc. In some ways, these surprises can become a commercial advantage because discoveries are made constantly that contribute to our growing intellectual property portfolio. On some days, it’s hard to convince oneself that newly discovered complexities are a good thing.

SW: What have been the major challenges of getting your transparent electrode technology commercialized?

MK: The electronics industry is very conservative when it comes to changes in component materials. Unlike a product such as photoresist or CMP slurries used in the semiconductor industry, our material ends up as part of the final device. As a result, qualification requirements are rigorous and time consuming. It is always an advantage if the customer’s manufacturing process need not change at all, but this is rare. The bar for performance is very high – a low cost, low quality solution is not generally what customers are seeking. And the list of specifications is very, very long. Your new material needs to pass each one of them. And once the material is engineered into a device, there is an opportunity for negative interactions with other materials. So the material has to qualify separately with each customer in the supply chain. In the case of our coated film, it had to pass qualification tests as a film, in the touch sensor, in the touch module, and in the smartphone. Since each step involves weeks of reliability testing, this can be a big challenge.

The other major issue is displacing an incumbent material that people have confidence in using, even though they are dissatisfied with it. It’s a necessary step and it’s difficult. However, since ClearOhm™ material has been qualified and commercially proven, people have begun innovating and finding applications for which the conventional solutions do not work at all. We look forward soon to being the incumbent ourselves.

SW: What types of applications are well-suited to Cambrios’ transparent electrodes?

MK: We believe that ClearOhm™ material technology can be adapted to all of the current transparent electrode applications. These include liquid crystal displays, touch screens, e-paper displays, OLED lighting, OLED displays, and thin film photovoltaics.

SW: We’ve heard a lot about OLED’s and nanotech. Do you foresee major penetration of OLED technology in the market over the next several years?

MK: We have several customers pursuing the adoption of ClearOhm™ transparent electrodes for OLED devices, both for displays and lighting. The material should be able to fit into existing design ideas for those products.

SW: Can you shed more light on what role Cambrios might play in OLEDs and the role of nanotech?

MK: People have been frustrated with transparent conductive oxide electrodes used for OLEDs. TCOs have a high index of refraction and this decreases the light output and distorts the color of OLEDs. By comparison, the refractive index of ClearOhm™ layers can be tuned and preliminary evidence has confirmed the prediction that light efficiency can be substantially enhanced with this strategy alone. This feature is strictly dependent on being able to use the most conductive element in the form of a nanowire to create a coating material.

SW: Tell us more about Cambrios’ technology and the role it might play in the evolution of thin film photo voltaics.

MK: Light management is obviously important in photovoltaics as well. One needs to optimize transparency and, in some modalities, use functional layers like the electrode to increase light scattering so photons have more opportunities to encounter the light absorbing active material. The structure of ClearOhm™ material presents the opportunity to dissociate conductivity and light management properties and optimize each independently. In addition to providing a lower cost electrode solution, we hope to provide that a ClearOhm™ electrode can offer higher efficiencies in some cases.

SW: One last question for you today, Michael. What other nano-enabled technologies is Cambrios working on and what should we expect to see from the company in the future?

MK: We have a big agenda in the transparent conductive film area and if we capture as big a fraction of those as we hope, that nano-enabled product will remain who we are in the foreseeable future. However, as our business develops, it would be natural for us to find other electronic material products that we could offer to the same customers in the consumer electronics, lighting, or solar industries. Given our technological assets, it would be surprising if none of the new innovations were nano-enabled.

SW: Thanks again for your time, Michael. We wish you and your colleagues at Cambrios all the best in the future.

Our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/2011 Nanomanufacturing Summit http://www.internano.org/nms2011/ is taking place September 25-27th at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA.

Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx
Hotel: Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/

REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Industry/Government $400
$500 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
$250 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

I hope you are enjoying your summer and staying cool.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

Nanomanufacturing remains the essential bridge between the discoveries of the nanosciences and commercialization of nanotechnology products . Nanomanufacturing is the controllable manipulation of materials structures, components, devices/machines, and systems at the nanoscale (0.1 to 100 nanometers) in one, two, and three dimensions for large-scale reproducibility of value-added components and devices. Nanomanufacturing encompasses bottom-up directed assembly, top-down high resolution processing, molecular systems engineering, and hierarchical integration with larger scale systems. As dimensional scales of materials and molecular systems approach the nanoscale, the conventional rules governing the behavior and properties of these components, devices, and systems change significantly. As such, the behavior of the final product is enabled by the collective performance of the nanoscale building blocks.

The National Nanomanufacturing Network (NNN) in conjunction with the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (NanoBCA), is pleased to announce a Call for Abstracts http://www.internano.org/nms2011/call for the 10th Annual NanoBusiness/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/, to be held in Boston, September 25-27, 2011. Contributions in the area of nanomanufacturing and commercialization of nanotechnology-enabled products are being solicited from experts and organizations in the field, along with the broader nanomanufacturing community. Topics include technical, business, regulatory, and standards areas. Abstracts for papers are being solicited for these key focus areas and topics having an emphasis on nanomanufacturing approaches, applications, research challenges, along with scaled production and commercialization. The technical program tracks and session sub-topics further include:

– Applications, Markets, and Commercialization
– Energy & Power
– Environmental Health and Safety in Nanomanufacturing
– Green Nanomanufacturing
– Integrated Nanomanufacturing Processes
– Metrology, Analytical Tools, and Standards for Nanomanufacturing
– Nanoelectronics & Sensors
– Nanomedicine & Biotechnology
– Nanomanufacturing Workforce Training Needs
– Nanomaterials

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at:

Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx
Hotel: Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/

REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Industry/Government $400
$500 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia $200
$250 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

NANO NEWS

Harris & Harris
Article in Businessweek.com Discusses Cobalt’s Technology
http://www.tinytechvc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=590479

Adesto Technologies and Altis Semiconductor Announce Partnership
http://www.tinytechvc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=589331

Article in Crain’s Cleveland Business Produced Water Absorbents Inc.
http://www.tinytechvc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=587542
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mPhase Posts PowerPoint Presentation from Shareholder Meeting Held June 29, 2011
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=e8zakgdab&v=001U3o_YTpC7rvsLOlbQ8SAmiodM63p5Ob4WDGoKfyHk82qwBTQRcRLRjWPPup-GlqX9H-UE5h8pNjQ65GIG4F2sBrif9BFZi7eKFYZQLoM32h2FX8cw6GeiA%3D%3D

U.S. Rep Dan Lipinski Offers Proposal to Revitalize Middle Class Jobs
http://lemont.patch.com/articles/us-rep-dan-lipinski-offers-proposal-to-revitalize-middle-class-jobs-2

Looking forward to receiving your abstracts and hope to see you in September.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org

Today we are proud to announce our Keynote lineup for our 10th Annual NanoBusiness Conference/Nanomanufacturing Summit 2011 http://www.internano.org/nms2011/.

The conference is being held September 25th-27th at:
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
http://www.seaportboston.com/meetings-and-events/overview.aspx
Hotel: Seaport Hotel (connected to the World Trade Center)
http://www.seaportboston.com/

REGISTRATION IS OPEN
Industry/Government:
$400; $500 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

University/Academia:
$200; $250 after August 26, 2011
https://regstg.com/Registration/RegForm.aspx?rid=9363e8fe-34c5-4188-9ecb-f1a5852ef5f3

OUR 2011 AGENDA IS TAKING SHAPE AND OUR KEYNOTE LINEUP IS FABULOUS
http://www.internano.org/nms2011/program

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2011
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
8:30-9:00 Keynote
Senator Scott Brown (R)-MA (Invited)
http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/

9:00-9:30 Keynote
Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
http://www.nsti.org/events/NNI/bio.html?id=54

9:30-10:00 Keynote
George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
http://www.nanobusiness2010.com/speakers

10:00-10:30 Keynote
Josh Wolfe, Founding & Managing General Partner, Lux Capital (Invited)
http://www.luxcapital.com/team_wolfe.php

4:00-4:30 Keynote
Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
http://www.livingstonsecurities.com/about.php

4:30-5:00 Keynote
Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
http://www.tinytechvc.com/team.cfm

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
8:30-9:00 Keynote
Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
http://www.nanofilmtechnology.com/about_nanofilm/bio-scott.htm

9:00-9:30 Keynote
Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/eng/staff/mroco.jsp

9:30-10:00 Keynote
Jim Hussey, CEO, Nanoink
http://www.nanoink.net/management-team.html

10:00-10:30 Keynote
David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
http://www.swentnano.com/about/management.php

1:15-2:00 Keynote
Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
http://www.nanomech.biz/company-profile/leadership/

NANO NEWS – WEEKLY SUMMARY
Six Ways I Know Nanotechnology is Here to Stay
by Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/six_ways_i_know_nanotechnology_is_here_to_stay_25035.aspx?SectionID=4

3M introduces new window film
http://www.startribune.com/business/125343818.html

Nanoscientists build antenna for light
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-nanoscientists-antenna.html

Nanocrystal transformers
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/07/Materials-Nanotechnology-Nanocrystal-Transformers/

I hope you are all having a relaxing and peaceful summer with your family. Start planning for the fall.

Regards,

Vincent Caprio “Serving the Nanotechnology Community for Over a Decade”
Executive Director
NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
203-733-1949
vincent@nanobca.org
www.nanobca.org