Nanotech Briefs is pleased to announce the winners of the first annual Nano 50™ Awards, which recognize the top 50 technologies, products, and innovators that have significantly impacted - or are expected to impact – the state of the art in nanotechnology. The winners of the Nano 50 awards are the “best of the best” – the innovative people and designs that will move nanotechnology to key mainstream markets.

Nano 50 nominations were judged by a panel of nanotechnology experts. The technologies, products, and innovators receiving the 50 highest scores were named Nano 50 award winners.

Nanotech Briefs congratulates all of the Nano 50 winners. Join us as we celebrate these innovators, and the technologies and products they’ve created, at the Nano 50 Awards Dinner at Nano 2005, November 10-11, 2005, at the Boston Marriott Newton. Click here for more information.

Congratulations to the first annual Nano 50:

Technologies
(Technology breakthroughs that have, or are expected to have,
a significant impact in one or more application areas.)

Molecular Vapor Deposition (MVD)
Applied MicroStructures, Inc.
San Jose, CA

Holographic Optical Trapping
Arryx, Inc.
Chicago, IL

Long-Life Power Source for Implantable Medical Devices
Biophan Technologies, Inc./TE-Bio
Rochester, NY

Nanocrystalline-Based Tungsten Carbon Alloy
Composite Tool Company
Gardena, CA

Griebel-Gormley Aperture Effect
ConverTec Corp.
Newtown, PA

Switchable Nanotube Diodes
GE Global Research
Niskayuna, NY

Tandem Hydrogen Cell
Hydrogen Solar LLC
Guildford, Surrey, UK

4-Centimeter Carbon Nanotube
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Smart NanoBatteries
mPhase Technologies, Inc.
Little Falls, NJ

Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Displays
Nano Proprietary
Austin, TX

Advanced Thermal Transport
Nanoconduction, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA

Structured Assembly of Particles in a Monolayer
Nanometrix
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Sensation™ Nanotube-Based Universal Detection Platform
Nanomix, Inc.
Emeryville, CA

Nanowire-Based Field Effect Transistors
Nanosys Inc.
Palo Alto, CA

Mechanically Strong, Polymer Crosslinked Aerogels (X-Aerogels)
NASA John H. Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, OH

Model-Based Library for Accurate Measurement
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD

Sculptured Thin Films
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Light Scattering of Carbon Nanotubes
University of Massachusetts Boston/US Army Natick Soldier Center
Boston, MA

GraphDyne™ Low-Cost Graphitic Thermal Management Materials
Venture Development Associates, LLC
Norman, OK

nCode Technology
Wilson Sporting Goods Co.
Chicago, IL

Products
(A product that incorporates nanotechnology in its design and/or operation, with significant current or near-term commercial applications.)

Filtek™ Supreme Universal Restorative
3M ESPE
St. Paul, MN

Fiber Optic Sensor Readout System
Blue Road Research
Gresham, OR

3D OmniProbe
Hysitron, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN

Nanolok™/Air D-Fense™ Coatings
InMat Inc.
Hillsborough, NJ

Subwavelength Optical Data Storage/AO-DVD
Iomega Corp.
Roy, UT

SiSonic “Zero-Height” MEMS-Based SMD Microphone
Knowles Acoustics
Itasca, IL

Trimetaspheres® Molecules
Luna nanoWorks
Danville, VA

Organ-Assisting-Device (OAD) Technologies
NanoBioMagnetics, Inc.
Edmond, OK

SubWave™ Trim Retarder
NanoOpto Corp.
Somerset, NJ

Nano-Tex™ Spill-Resistant Fabrics
Nano-Tex
Emeryville, CA

3D Atom Probe
Oxford nanoScience Ltd
Milton Keynes, UK

Nanoblend™ Concentrates and Nanoblend™ LST Compounds
PolyOne Corp.
Avon Lake, OH

NanoFoil®
Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc.
Hunt Valley, MD

Seldon Water Stick
Seldon Technologies
Woodstock, VT

Model 9070 MEMS Driver System
TEGAM, Inc.
Geneva, OH

Innovators
(An individual recognized as a leader or pioneer in a specific area of nanotechnology, with a significant background of accomplishments in advancing the state of the art in nanotechnology.)

Doug DuFaux
NanoDynamics Inc.
Buffalo, NY

Dr. John C.C. Fan
Kopin Corp.
Taunton, MA

Dr. Michael Graetzel
Ecole Polytechnique
Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Sungho Jin
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Dr. Christopher J. Kiely
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Foundry
Berkeley, CA

Dr. Jun Li
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA

Dr. Charles M. Lieber
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Dr. Thomas P. Rudy
MACH I
Saratoga, CA

Dr. Mihail Roco
National Nanotechnology Initiative
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Thomas Rueckes
Nantero
Woburn, MA

Dr. Nadrian Seeman
New York University
New York, NY

Dr. Zhong Lin Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Dr. Danny Xiao
Inframat Corp.
Farmington, CT

Dr. Zvi Yaniv
Applied Nanotech, Inc.
Austin, TX