Posted: April 16, 2009

Phantoms Foundation coordinates the first Spain Pavilion at NSTI Nanotech 2009

(Nanowerk News) The world’s largest and most anticipated annual nanotechnology conference and expo, NSTI Nanotech 2009, will be held from May 3 to 7, 2009 at George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas (U.S.A.). The twelfth edition of this conference and exhibition is more international in scope than ever, expecting over 5,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors.
The Phantoms Foundation in collaboration with The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) will bring together for the first time a nanoscience and nanotechnology Spanish Pavilion at NSTI.
Leading Spanish nanoscience and nanotechnology companies, science and technology research centers and industry associations will showcase innovative technologies and projects from Spain under “Spanish Nanoscience and Technological Offer” presenting uses and advances in nanotechnology to better integrate the Spanish Science-Technology-Company-Society in the U.S.
The Spain Pavilion will promote the “Spanish Nanoscience and Technological Offer", allowing to represent the scientific, technological and innovative agents of the country as a whole, to foster relationships with other NSTI Nanotech 2009 participants, to promote country culture of innovation, to better integrate the Spanish “Science-Technology-Company-Society” system in USA, to generate and to develop scientific and technological knowledge, to improve competitiveness and to contribute to the economic and social development of Spain.
The Spanish participation will group 12 Companies and Research Centres providing an outlook of the most innovative projects and products in various fields of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology.
Participating companies/institutions within the Spain Pavilion are:

1. Phantoms Foundation (Coordinator)

2. NANOTEX (SOLUTEX Group)

3. ENDOR Nanotechnologies

4. AVANZARE Innovación Tecnológica S.L.

5. GAIA/GENESIS

6. Innovatec Sensorización y Comunicación, S.L.

7. nanoBasque Agency

8. CIC nanoGUNE Consolider

9. Nanobiomatters Industries S.L.

10. AlphaSIP

11. NANOGAP SUB-NM-POWDER S.A.

12. Fedit - Technology Centers of Spain

Source: Phantoms Foundation