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Sep. 6, 2005 – Acacia Research Corp. (Nasdaq:ACTG)(Nasdaq:CBMX), parent company of microfluidics chip maker CombiMatrix, announced that Tisha DeRaimo and Jo Anne Ybaben joined its Acacia Technologies group as vice presidents of licensing.

DeRaimo’s prior experience includes intellectual property work with Alea Global Law, David International Trading Company and Pillsbury Winthrop.

Ybaben’s was previously in intellectual property law and licensing with Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins and Fulwider Patton Lee & Utecht.

Sep. 6, 2005 – Materials discovery firm and phosphor provider Intematix Corp. of Fremont, Calif., announced that it will provide its White Lightning Y450/Y460 brand of phosphors to Taiwan’s Edison Opto for use in a variety of applications for the white LED and solid state lighting markets.

Edison Opto of Chung-Ho, Taiwan, is focused on LED innovation for applications like power LEDs, LCD backlighting, camera flashes, emerging general illumination and architectural lighting.

“Our two companies recognize the importance of the high power and backlighting applications built on phosphor, optics and packaging innovations,” said Intematix Chief Executive Officer Ruediger Stroh in a prepared statement. “We believe Edison Opto is a valuable partner whose understanding of end systems and innovative designs built around the White Lightning phosphor technology will make a significant contribution to the marketplace.”

The first members of the Intematix phosphor family, the White Lightning Y450 and Y460, were announced in March and are available for high volume use.

Sep. 6, 2005 — NeoPhotonics Corp. of San Jose, Calif., announced that it introduced a new transceiver, the PT765F-81-2TD, at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition in Shenzhen, China.

The design and manufacture of the 10Gbps long-reach transceiver was carried out at the company’s Shenzhen plant, according to a prepared statement by Tim Jenks, chief executive officer of NeoPhotonics.

The device, which supports a variety of rate connections, is now available for initial shipments. The company says it can achieve 40-kilometer link performance over single-mode fiber and can be installed without interrupting service.

Sep. 6, 2005 – Nanotechnology company pSivida Limited (NASDAQ:PSDV) announced it signed a contract with Cirrus Pharmaceuticals Inc. to accelerate and expand development of a number of specific drug candidates formulated in its BioSilicon material.

The company says the development contract will have an initial extendable term of one year and provide a dedicated team of scientists from Cirrus. The relationship has been established to generate new products based on reformulating existing specific generic and proprietary drugs and their delivery utilizing BioSilicon.

Sep. 2, 2005 – NextEnergy, a Michigan-based non-profit advanced energy initiative, announced the appointment of Michael Boulus, Robert Buckler, Lana Pollack and Chris Rizik to its board of directors.

Boulus is executive director of Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan. Buckler is president and chief operating officer for DTE Energy Distribution. Pollack serves on the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board and the Environmental Advisory Committee for the State Department of Environmental Quality. Rizik is a co-founder and partner of Ardesta LLC, a venture capital firm that invests in nanotechnology, MEMS and microsystems companies and which is the founding investor in Small Times Media.

Sep. 1, 2005 – Accelrys Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) announced the appointment of Mathew Hahn as chief science and technology officer.

The company said Hahn will be responsible for driving the direction of Accelrys’ science and technology. He will also focus on actively engaging Accelrys’ internal scientific and technical communities by chairing both the Accelrys sabbatical program and the technology council.

Hahn’s tenure with the company extends back to his joining Molecular Simulations, the previous name of Accelrys, in 1989. In the following ten years he led the company’s product development effort for a number of its life science products, including the catalyst product line.

In 1999, Hahn co-founded workflow company SciTegic Inc., which Accelrys subsequently acquired in September 2004. At that time Hahn re-joined Accelrys as general manager of the SciTegic subsidiary.

Sep. 1, 2005 — Acacia Research Corp. (Nasdaq: CBMX) (Nasdaq: ACTG) announced that its CombiMatrix group has expanded its product line to include the CustomArray 4X2K. This product contains four independent 2000-feature microarrays on a single CustomArray.

Like other CustomArray products, the new one offers array customization, user control of probe design, and the ability to modify microarray design. It is intended to deliver high sensitivity, throughput, and ease of use for gene discovery, pathway research, and molecular characterization of disease, the company says.

“The DNA-array market has various segments,” said Michael Tognotti, vice president of sales and marketing, in a prepared statement. “One is a segment where customers desire low-cost arrays and do not need a large number of features per array. The 4X2K, with four 2000-feature microarrays per semiconductor chip, is ideally suited to that segment.”

He said the new product reduces research costs for customers, which is based on price per microarray. The 4X2K is priced starting at $99 per 2000-feature microarray. It will be marketed to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostic, academic, and government sectors.

Sep. 1, 2005 – Nanosys Inc. announced the issuance of a pair of U.S. patents related to using quantum dots for white and colored light emission.

The patents were exclusively licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the company, which says the technology described in the patents can be used for developing quantum dots for applications that include displays, lighting and spectral encoding. The patents are no. 6,890,777 and 6,914,265.

Sep. 1, 2005 — Solaris Nanosciences of Providence, R.I., has demonstrated what it claims to be a completely rechargeable dye sensitized solar cell (also known as a Graetzel cell).

The recharging process and its performance were independently confirmed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne where dye sensitized solar cells were invented by Professor Michael Graetzel.

Graetzel said in a prepared statement that the cell’s performance remained intact after three cycles. He added that the procedure is the first to accomplish a rapid and complete replenishment of the sensitizer and electrolyte. Graetzel is on the science advisory board of Solaris Nanosciences.

Solaris says it plans to develop a large scale prototype of its rechargeable solar cell for testing at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and with corporate partners to explore the distribution of the technology through the building and construction industry.

Sep. 1, 2005 – Raymor Industries Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RAR) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Advanced Powders and Coatings Inc. (AP&C) has begun fulfilling contracts with Siemens Power Generation for the application of thermal spray coatings onto turbine components used in power generation.

The initiation of the contracts follows pre-qualification steps undertaken over the last six months, the company said. Siemens Power Generation, a division of Siemens AG, is a leading supplier of power plant technology and services.