Small Times presented its highly respected Best of Small Tech awards at its NanoCon International conference and exhibition at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA on November 14, 2007.
This is the sixth annual Small Times awards program, which spotlights the top companies, leaders and the biggest successes in nanotechnology, MEMS and microsystems during the past year. “Each year it gets more and more difficult to judge the best and brightest as the micro and nanotechnology market continues to mature and new products come to market,” said Christine Shaw, Senior Vice President and Group Publisher of Small Times. “It is an honor to recognize the leading companies, and business and research executives who are driving integration of nanotechnology into the commercial pipeline.” Each award submission is evaluated by the Small Times’ staff and the winners are chosen by a distinguished panel of industry experts.
In the area of Innovator, the Best of Small Tech Award goes to Louisiana Tech University’s Institute for Micromanufacturing professor, Dr. Yuri Lvov, Tolbert C. Pipes Endowed Chair of Micro and Nanosystems. Dr. Lvov has worked during the past year to pioneer drug reformulation through polyelectrolyte nano-encapsulation, which has allowed stable nano and micro colloids of important cancer drugs. He extended the same approach for improvement of cellulose microfibers from recycled paper through polyelectrolyte nanocoating, thereby allowing increase of recycled fiber usage in paper. His results have been widely published in peer reviewed journals and also patented in the US and internationally, including patents on Layered Nanoparticles for Sustained Release of Small Molecules, and on Lithography-Based Patterning of Layer-by-Layer Nanoassembled Thin Films.
