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Small Business Nanofiber Research to Be Showcased
Friday, September 5, 2002
NCER Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (NCER) - An EPA-supported small business
was invited to showcase its technology at the World's Best Technologies
exhibition, sponsored by the National Association of Seed and Venture
Funds, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, and
Pittsburgh Technology Council. The conference will be held at Sheraton
Station Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from September 24 - 26,
2002. eSpin Technologies, Inc
is a small, high-technology start-up company that specializes in
providing custom-made electrospun nanofibers in collaboration with
academic centers and major corporations. For its work supported
by EPA, eSpin is focusing on the use of nanotechnology to make activated
carbon nanofilters that can remove gaseous pollutants.
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| eSpin nanofibers compared to a human hair. |
The exhibition is a showcase for technologies developed in the Nation's most advanced research facilities and top universities. Fifty exhibitors were selected by a screening panel of investors and commercialization experts on the basis of having the greatest potential forhigh-growth commercial enterprises. eSpin was chosen as one of the top 15 exhibitors and will make a presentation describing their technology and the magnitude of the market opportunity.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of the participating federal agencies in the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program which is designed to strengthen the role of small businesses in developing a stronger national base for technological innovation.
For more information about eSpin's project, visit: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/5072/report/0.
To learn more about EPA's SBIR program, visit: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/sbir/.