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NSTI nanoPRwire™

• NSTI Announces Scientific Program for 9th Annual Nanotech 2006
  Conference includes expanded vertical industry sessions.
• NSTI Partners and Co-Locates with TechConnect.org for TechConnect Summit 2006
  TechConnect is a global technology outreach organization, dedicated to locating the world’s most promising IP and start-up companies across all industries and technology focus areas.

• Government Lab Explores How Nano Devices Could Better Safeguard the Public From National Security Threats
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Officials To Hold Special Nano-Security Symposium at Nanotech2006
  NWN Exclusive - By Vance McCarthy
• Nanotechnology Tackles Brain Cancer
  NCI-supported researchers are creating ultrasmall particles that can target and destroy cancer cells in the brain, even those in tumors too small to be removed surgically.
  Special collaborative feature with National Cancer Institute

• Nanotechnology Is Key In Creating Battery to Power Artificial Retina
  NIH Provides Multi-Million Grant to Research Team to Create National Center for the Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors
  NWN Interview Brief with Dr. Susan Rempe, Sandia National Laboratories - By Jennifer Rocha
• Lumera Corporation and Harvard Medical School to Collaborate on New Protein Biochip
• Viral and Gold Nanoparticles Show Potential to Seek and Treat Disease

• Photronics to Invest More than $150 Million US Into Fab Facility in Korea
• Nanorings Could Hold Key to Faster Computers
• Applied Materials and IMEC Join Forces to Develop Nanoelectronics Technologies
• Intel Produces Semiconductor’s First 45 Nanometer Chip
• University and Federal Lab Researchers Discover Nanotubes Gain Super Strength When Heated

• Fujitsu to Invest More Than $1 Billion US for 65nm Process Production
  Fujitsu Speaks to NWN Regarding Company’s Plans for Second Fab in Japan - By Jennifer Rocha
• Japan Electronics Giants Look to Reclaim Lead in Worldwide Microchip Market
• Advanced Particle Beam Technologies for Nano Characterization and Fabrication
  J.J.L. Mulders et al., FEI Electron Optics

• Nanotechnology-Enabled Automobile Industry, Which Includes Fuel Cell Development, Will Increase Market Share More Than 500% Within 10 Years
  NSTI Nanotech 2006 Will Feature New Symposium on Energy and Fuel
• New Nanotechnology Index Has Been Created to Meet Growing Demand From Investors
  NWN Interview Brief with Mr. Bruce Goldberg, CMO, International Securities Exchange (ISE) and Mr. Michael Soni, President & CEO, Cronus Capital Markets
• Nanotech Task Force in California Gives Recommendations to Its State
  California is looking to jump ahead of the competition in nanotechnology research and commercialization