Yorkshire Forward invests £5m in nanotechnology

Published: 11-May-2005


Yorkshire Forward, UK, has announced a £5m funding package for three university-based centres to help the region's companies exploit, according to the DTI, the estimated $1trillion global market of micro-and nanotechnology (MNT).

A specialist area of science and technology that operates below one millionth of a metre, MNT is widely expected be one of the key technology growth areas in the 21st century. The Yorkshire Forward investment is aimed at building capability in MNT by helping projects with substantial commercial potential to move from the development stage to the open market. The three projects being funded are: • the Nanofactory, based at the University of Leeds in partnership with the Universities of Bradford and Sheffield, which has been given £2.1m to refurbish facilities and help to create the UK's first nano-manufacturing centre with a focus on consumer products; • the York-JEOL Centre for Nanolithography and Analysis, based at the University of York, which has been given £1.65m to refurbish space and purchase new equipment; • the Polymer Interdisciplinary Research Centre, based at the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford and host to the new Micro- and Nano-Moulding Centre, which has been given £1.2m to upgrade key equipment and enable the commercial development of nanotechnology in the fields of polymer and composite materials. Microtechnology is currently used in a range of common consumer products, such as hard drive coatings in computers, chips in mobile phones and airbag motion sensors in cars. Nanotechnology, the younger of the two, is used in products such as sunblock cream and bone replacements. Over the past year, Yorkshire Forward has achieved its best ever performance, creating or safeguarding more than 16,000 jobs; creating and attracting more than 700 new businesses to the area; providing more than 47,000 learning opportunities and reclaiming more than 140 hectares of brownfield land, thereby achieving or exceeding all of its targets.

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