Eastern Tennessee Focuses on Nanotech

East Tennessee economic developers, politicians and those charged with commercializing local scientific research are hoping to cash in big by focusing small.

Officials from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, the Department of Energy, Technology 2020 and the JobsNow! program gathered Monday at Tech 2020's Oak Ridge offices to unveil a new marketing campaign centered on nanotechnology research in the region.

The East Tennessee Nano Initiative is an effort to recruit and create companies around the Spallation Neutron Source, a research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will allow scientists to closely examine materials at a subatomic level using neutron beams more powerful than at any other facility in the world.

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