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2007-02-20 News Release
Specialty chemicals
nanotechnology solutions alliance
Nano Terra to develop nanotechnology solutions with Merck, creating new
physical properties in specialty chemicals.
EMD Chemicals, representing the North American chemical sector of Merck
KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announces an alliance with Nano Terra LLC, a
leading nanotechnology co-development company, designed to bring to market
innovative, nanotechnology-based products and solutions.
Find Information and Suppliers of specialty
chemicals.
Nano Terra is a privately held research and development company which
custom develops nano technology solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Many
of its sciences are based on the life work of Professor George Whitesides,
the Woodford L. and Ann A Flowers University Professor at Harvard University,
and are based on biochemistry, materials science, catalysis and physical
organic chemistry.
Under the agreement, Nano Terra will develop solutions with Merck to create
new physical properties in specialty chemicals, currently manufactured and
sold by Merck. These new properties are made possible through nano-scale,
molecular fabrication methods pioneered by Nano Terra and its Co-Founder,
Professor George M. Whitesides of Harvard University. The new solutions
will allow Merck’s proprietary materials to be used with significantly
greater precision and control, and allow for new applications at reduced
economic levels never before possible.
The development work will be done primarily at Nano Terra’s lab
facilities in Cambridge, with close cooperation of a Merck scientific
team. Local support for the alliance will be provided by EMD Chemicals,
Merck’s North American affiliate.
EMD Chemicals represents the North American chemical sector of Merck
KGaA ,
Darmstadt, Germany. As an international organization with 1,100 employees
and revenues of more than $US 350 million, EMD
Chemicals
focuses on specialty chemicals for pharmaceutical, biotech, cosmetic,
agricultural, automotive, plastics, electronics and other industrial applications.
The two companies anticipate that first new solutions will be presented
to Merck customers by early 2008. The partners will share commercialization
rights on a global basis. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
“Merck is a world leader in research-driven pharmaceutical and chemical
products, and the goal of this alliance is to work with them to develop
innovative nanotechnology solutions that dramatically expand the addressable
markets for their materials,” said Carmichael Roberts, Vice Chairman
of Nano Terra. “We are very proud to have been selected by them
because of our scientific capabilities.”
Dr. Thomas Geelhaar, Vice President Liquid Crystals R&D and Business
Development Chemicals of Merck KGaA, added: “We have long been fascinated
by the sciences originally developed by Professor George Whitesides of
Harvard and, through his association with Nano Terra, we look forward
to being amongst the first to commercialize these innovations with them.”
In 2006, Merck bestowed on Professor Whitesides the prestigious Emanuel
Merck Lectureship prize.
Find information about Nano
Terra LLC.
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