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nanotimes Editor‘s Letter

11-09 :: September 2011

Mitsubishi, NEC Corporation or Evonik Industries it is the smaller innovative enterprises like Altair Nanotech, Cymbet, ITN Energy Systems, Blue Spark Technologies (formerly Thin Battery Technologies) or PolyIC that enormously drive the commercialization progress of electric vehicles. Most important: New investments will create new jobs.

Alongside the increasing news on batteries the graphene topic remains up-to-date and has priority once again like in our Jun-/Jul-11 edition (topics include e.g. worldwide patent filings, computer chips with gra- phene, graphene and the terahertz band).

Thomas Ilfrich