The method, which involves treating carbon nanotubes with fluorine-based molecules, is reported in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science. The research was jointly led by Graciela B. Blanchet, a research fellow at DuPont, and George Malliaras, Cornell associate professor of materials science and engineering and the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility. Helen Lu, a research chemist at Dupont, and Mandakini Kanungo, a former Cornell postdoctoral fellow now at Xerox, also worked on the project.
January 12, 2009: Illumina Inc. and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. have formed a profit-sharing alliance under which Illumina will exclusively market, sell, distribute, and service BASE Technology products developed by Oxford for DNA sequencing, the companies announced in a news release.