OCT. 27–ATLANTA, GA– Gov. Sonny Perdue has announced the creation of advanced facilities for nanotechnology during a recent speech at the Georgia Technology Celebration, sponsored by the Technology Association of Georgia.

The Nanotechnology Research Center will be located on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and will be launched thanks to a $36 million contribution from an anonymous donor. To leverage this generous donation, Governor Perdue will include state matching funds over the next several years as part of his economic development budget recommendations to the Georgia General Assembly.

The Center will be the most advanced nanotechnology facility in the Southeast, the first of its kind in the region, and will be one of the most sophisticated in the country. Located on the Georgia Tech campus, the 160,000 square foot facility will feature 30,000 square feet of cleanrooms critical to nanotechnology research.

It will enable the state to compete with other places where such facilities are planned or under construction ? MIT and Cornell in the Northeast, Purdue and the University of Illinois in the Midwest, and Stanford and UC Berkeley in the West. The Center will offer access to nanotech researchers from other Georgia universities as well as industry partners.