Nanotechnology

Advance Nanotech Subsidiary Receives Incremental $3.7 Million Contract From an Agency of the United States Department of Defense

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 18th, 2007

Advance Nanotech, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: AVNA) , announced that its Owlstone Nanotech Inc., subsidiary has been awarded an incremental $3.7 million contract by an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense to provide micro-miniature products and related services for detection of chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals and trace explosive vapors. The three-year contract begins current fourth quarter 2007.

Owlstone will develop, design and fabricate a customized variant of its miniaturized chemical detector using Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry ("FAIMS"). This customized version of the sensor will be designed to detect substances at exceptionally low...

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