Nanotechnology partnership will boost business
Issued: Thu, 02 May 2013 12:06:00 BST
A new partnership between UK leaders in micro- and nanotechnology is offering access to tiny technologies that could bring big benefits for business.
The University of Glasgow, the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Kelvin Nanotechnology Ltd (KNT) have combined resources to form a complete nanotechnology service: Kelvin-Rutherford.
The new venture delivers seamless support across device design, through computer simulations, and on to fabrication and evaluation in preparation for mass production.
In addition to the partners’ vast research and development expertise, leading design, simulation and fabrication facilities are now available from one easy-to-access point of contact based at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
STFC is host to the UK’s fastest supercomputer, capable of more than a thousand trillion calculations per second. This provides an ideal platform on which to run high-performance nanotechnology modelling and simulation. KNT provides nanofabrication solutions to its blue chip global customer base through the University’s James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. The centre fabricates some of the most advanced nanoscale systems in the world.
Kelvin-Rutherford will support innovation across a variety of business sectors, from medical diagnostics and space exploration to consumer electronics.
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