Lockheed Martin gives LANCER program high marks (August 2009)

Collaboration brings new dimension to nanotechnology research

In the August issue of Lockheed Martin’s newsletter, Lockheed Martin Today spotlights the Lockheed Martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice University, known as LANCER. A $1M plus research partnership between Lockheed and Rice University, LANCER is a unique collaboration aimed at transitioning nanotechnology concepts from the laboratory into “real world” customer solutions. Based at the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, LANCER, pairs researchers from Lockheed Martin with Rice experts in carbon nanotechnology, photonics, plasmonics and more.

“This partnership has been excellent in fostering the research of our faculty, and it is nice for Lockheed to describe our faculty as “phenomenal” and acknowledge that LANCER has led to more exciting joint projects in the nano area than their partnerships with any other university”, said Jim Coleman, Vice Provost for Research and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Daniel Mittleman, professor in electrical and computer engineering and Rice’s LANCER faculty director, is quoted extensively in the newsletter. Read the article from Lockheed Martin Today http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/corporate/documents/LMToday-AUGUST09.pdf

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