ROMEOVILLE, Ill., Oct. 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nanophase Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:NANX), a technology leader in the development of advanced nanoengineered products, announced today that the company's president and CEO, Jess Jankowski, is a keynote speaker at the 4th Annual Nano Energy Summit being held October 25-26, 2011, at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The summit is presented by the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association and co-hosted by the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance in conjunction with Colorado-based National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Mr. Jankowski will be speaking on Tuesday, October 25, at 10:00 a.m. The topic of his presentation is Nanotechnology: Enabling Success in Energy. Specifically, Mr. Jankowski will discuss the challenges of nano-enabled energy applications and the ways that Nanophase has approached some of the technical and business challenges inherent in commercializing new technologies. "Now that Nanophase has an enhanced degree of freedom to operate in various areas, including energy conservation and storage, we have launched a few projects leading toward potential commercial product introductions in this space," said Mr. Jankowski.
The Nano Energy Summit is a gathering of world-renowned experts at the intersection of nanotechnology and energy, with specific focus on the business, commercialization and economic development potential of emerging technologies in the energy field.
About Nanophase Technologies
Nanophase Technologies Corporation (NANX), www.nanophase.com, is a leader in nanomaterials technologies and provides nanoengineered solutions for multiple industrial product applications. Using a platform of patented and proprietary integrated nanomaterial technologies, the Company creates products with unique performance attributes from two ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001 facilities. Nanophase delivers commercial quantity and quality nanoparticles, coated nanoparticles, and nanoparticle dispersions in a variety of media.