Mo6 ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY OF THE MoSIx-6® NANOMATERIAL

Provides the First Viable Alternative to Carbon Nanotubes

HELMOND, The Netherlands / LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, March 12, 2004 - Mo6 B.V., a leading provider of transitional metal chalcogenide-halide nanomaterials, today announced the commercial availability of its groundbreaking MoSIx-6® nanomaterial.

"One of the biggest challenges in nanotechnology is the synthesis of pure, monodispersed nanotubes or nanowires with identical structure and - ideally - with tuneable physical or functional properties," said dr. Dragan Mihailovic, chief scientist of Mo6, "but the prototype material - carbon nanotubes - stops short of fulfilling this goal, partly because it is difficult to synthesise them in a way that produces identical nanotubes in bulk."

In an apparent breakthrough, in a paper by a research team from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia (IoP journal Nanotechnology 15, 635), a new class of one-dimensional molybdenum cluster polymers (MCPs) with the formula Mo6C9-xHx (C=chalcogen, H=halogen, 3 < x < 6) is reported, which appears to surpass many of the synthesis-related shortcomings of carbon nanotubes. Remarkably, the new materials are synthesised in a one-step process, have no inseparable impurities, and can be easily and controllably dispersed without use of surfactants.

On the other hand, they very effectively satisfy many of the requirements in various applications defined by 10 years of carbon nanotube research: their functional properties such as mechanical strength, electrical conductivity and field emission characteristics are very similar to carbon nanotubes. In addition, they are also of particular interest for use in composites, Li battery electrodes, as nanosensors with tuneable chemical properties (depending on composition x), and as lubricants. The ability of the material surface to attract gold particles in combination with dispersability in water can be particularly useful for interfacing MCPs to biomolecules.

Pricing and Availability
The MoSIx-6 nanomaterial is available immediately. Purity, as produced, is >75%. Pricing is 200-400 EUR per 100mg, based on quantity, with volume discounts.

About Mo6 B.V.
Mo6 B.V. is headquartered in Helmond, The Netherlands, with research and production facilities located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Product and company information is available at http://www.mo6.com.

Contacts:

Zeljko Kucan
Mo6 B.V., Helmond, NL
Tel: +385-98-213312
E-mail: z.kucan@mo6.com

Erik Wijnen
Mo6 d.o.o., Ljubljana, SI
Tel: +32-476-409989
e.wijnen@mo6.com

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