Nanoscale Liquid Jets Shape New Line of Business

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Overview

Early on in his 6-year NASA career, Emanuel Barros led the development of re-flown flight hardware for an award-winning Spacelab project called NeuroLab." This project the sixteenth and final Spacelab mission focused on a series of experiments to determine the effects of microgravity on the development of the mammalian nervous system. In 1999 Barros transitioned into a project supporting the development of International Space Station research hardware and was considered a nanotechnology expert among many of his peers in the Life Sciences Division at Ames. Fully satisfied with his accomplishments at NASA Barros departed Ames in 2002 to succeed in nanoscale manufacturing as the chief technical officer and acting chief executive officer of NanoMatrix. NanoMatrix's proprietary machining services and equipment are capable of performing sub-micron etching drilling welding cutting and shaping all with nanometer precision. The company's work represents an alternative method for developing and building small-scale electronic mechanical and medical devices among other applications. To date the company's biggest application involves film adhesion. NanoMatrix developed a process for a client that allows its next generation of films to adhere to a glass surface such as a window or a lens without affecting clarity."