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A Mecca for Nanotechnology

By Karen Tararache

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 05:00 AM EDT

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. -- Across New York state, more than 15,000 jobs and $35 billion are generated from the nanoscale, science and engineering fields.

"Over $20 billion dollar investments here and that's in Albany and then once you add Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, there is another $10-$12 billion investments there and another 10,000 jobs," said Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, SUNY Polytechnic Institute CEO.

Conveniently located just three hours from NYC, Boston and Montreal, the Capital Region is home to a leading mecca in the nanotechnology field.

"No, not even in my wildest dreams I thought it would evolve into all of this," Kaloyeros said.

According to Merriam-Webster, Nanotechnology is the science of working with atoms and molecules to build devices that are extremely small. Kaloyeros' definition is a little less scientific and perhaps more romantic: "It's giving life."

In the early 2000's, the creation of CNSE propelled the industry forward, later catching the eye of President Obama.

"The education they get, the facilities are way better than MIT and Stanford for $6,000 a year tuition."

The president's goal was to establish more colleges nationwide with the same model as SUNY Polytechnic Institute. It's what's attracted companies like IBM, Intel and Global Foundries to settle in Upstate New York.

"The funding comes to the university so we set up the facilities, put the equipment in place and make it available to all the partners equally."

SUNY Poly's $20 billion nanotechnology complex features 1.3 million square feet of cutting-edge facilities, and with the nanotech field rapidly expanding, it’s a guarantee we'll see more start-up businesses in New York in the near future.

"The ability to integrate nanotech with the knowledge of the human body is the next frontier for us."

Kaloyeros predicts in a few years, 75 percent of their research will be devoted to creating new chips to recover eyesight or patches that administer medicine, and even computer chips planted into a tooth to help dentists manage a drug dosage.

"I have to be honest," Kaloyeros said, "sometimes I feel like we haven't done enough yet."

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