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"The IDES philosophy of providing relevant engineering information to help
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"Our partnership with Machine Design is a great fit -- they have a large
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MachineDesign. The award is under the United States Department of Defense's
Office of Strategic Defense SBIR Phase 1 proposal OSD04-EP3
"Nanostructure-Enhanced Bulk Thermoelectric Materials" and the program is
managed by the Navy's Office of Naval Research .
"Thermoelectric devices have the potential for a wide range of
applications," said Dr.

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The quantum dot thermoelectric project is scheduled to be
completed in June of 2005. Gregory Scholes of the University of Toronto.

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The objective of the project is to demonstrate that quantum dots can be
used to produce an improved thermoelectric nanomaterial by engineering thermal
and electronic properties to achieve increased efficiencies.

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content that includes more than 60,000 plastic material data sheets from
500 global resin manufacturers.com) is a pioneer in the
development of advanced nanomaterials engineered to enable the creation of
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announced it has received an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant
from the Office of Strategic Defense for a project to develop a high
performance thermoelectric material using Evident's proprietary quantum dot
technology . Scholes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry,
University of Toronto.evidenttech .

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IDES is a plastic materials information management company.Y. Evident will
work to develop an advanced thermoelectric nanomaterial that, because of its
improved efficiencies, could offer significant cost and performance benefits
for both military and commercial applications."
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materials into new products and is also a leading commercial source for a wide
range of quantum dot material systems that offer advantages over traditional
semiconductors.

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This should substantially help increase the performance and
reduce the cost of a wide range of thermoelectric devices," said Clint
Ballinger, Chief Executive Officer of Evident.

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has announced a strategic partnership with Machine Design magazine, a
leading publication serving OEM design engineers with the most up -to-date
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About Machine Design

Machine Design , the leading publication serving design engineers in the
OEM, has been providing engineers with the most up-to-date technical
information since 1929. It is published 24 times annually and circulated to
180,000 qualified design engineers. The company provides custom
resin selectors for nearly all resin distributors and a number of resin
manufacturers. Gregory Scholes of the University of Toronto
will be collaborating with Evident Technologies to measure and characterize
these materials .

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The Machine Design brand is rated "most useful" among design
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About IDES Inc. For more information , visit www. By using an innovative quantum dot based material, we hope to see
greater device efficiencies .

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"By using quantum dots in a thin film, our goal is to reinvigorate the
development of thermoelectric technologies to obtain unprecedented device
efficiencies.

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