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Big bucks for study of the very small: Texas pledges $21.5 million for nanotechnology center at UT.

Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX)

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Byline: Eric Berger

Sep. 28--DALLAS -- The state of Texas committed $21.5 million on Wednesday to increase the state's stake in the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology research. The funds, added to $11.5 million from the semiconductor industry, will create a research center based at the University of Texas at Austin that will include six other universities. Dubbed the Southwest Academy of Nanotechnology, the center will seek to create the next generation of computer chips. "With this investment we will bring seven to eight globally recognized researchers and their teams to Texas to develop breakthrough nanoelectronics research, which will impact our…

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