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Nano partnership
Caltech and CEA-Leti launch partnership program to speed commercialization of Nanotech Systems
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and CEA-Leti, co-founders of the NanoVLSI Alliance, have launched the NanoSystems Partnership Program (NSyP) to accelerate delivery of nanosystems-based innovations to the market. The partnership, open to new members, already includes four companies from a variety of industries that will enable close collaboration between the alliance and the private sector: AREVA, LECO, bioMérieux and Total.
The partnership is opening new application opportunities, initially based on its nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) platform, focusing on three main areas:
• High sensitivity gas phase chemical-sensing systems, including preanalytical and chemical separation modules
• Highly-multiplexed, microfluidic-interfaced mass spectrometry, and
• Liquid phase biochemical sensors for pharmaceutical research and point‐of‐care diagnostics. Roadmaps establish the staging of prototype demonstrators, beginning with a multichannel gas chromatography detection module, to be realized in the near future.
For the past three years, Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI) and CEA-Leti's Electronics and Information Technologies Laboratory have joined their fundamental and technological research expertise through the NanoVLSI Alliance to transition from the era of "nanocraft" to very large scale integration of nanosystems. Researchers from both institutions are collaborating to transform nanotechnology based prototypes into robust, complex sensing systems ready for transfer to industry.
