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The Science City Interdisciplinary Research Alliance (SCIRA) initiative supports the manufacturing industry of the West Midlands and is actively working to improve the competitiveness of the region. As part of that activity we provide a free alerting service bringing the latest information on key topics to your desktop and backing that up with a searchable archive of News, Patents, University Publications and Research Papers. We welcome feedback on the service, please use the Contact us link at the top of the page to send us you comments and suggestions to improve Materials Alerts.



'Nanoman' was created by focussed electron beam deposition on the tip of an STM - an illustration of 3D nanostructure fabrication with a precision of 10nm.