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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011
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BIG FUTURE FOR TINY TECHNOLOGY Surrey company developing butterfly-inspired security feature
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Tom ZYTARUK Staff Reporter
SURREY – A Surrey company is flying high over a high-tech breakthrough inspired by a shimmering blue butterfly. The idea, developed at Simon Fraser University’s campuses at Surrey and Burnaby, involves some really small stuff. Really small. We’re talking nanotechnology, 1,500 times thinner than a strand of human hair. Holes so small, air can’t pass through them. So small, they can trap a single wavelength of light. Inspired by the Blue Morpho Butterfly’s wings, the technology
is being used to develop unique anti-counterfeiting security features that can be applied to bank notes, legal documents, retail merchandise and other items like concert tickets, stock certificates, visas, passports and pharmaceuticals. Clint Landrock, of North
Vancouver, is an SFU applied sciences grad. He began researching nanoholes under the guidance of engineering science professor Bozena Kaminska, a Vancouver resident. They approached Doug Blakeway, CEO of Nanotech Security Corp. and SFU Venture Connection’s entrepreneur in residence, with their groundbreaking idea and the Surrey resident was “astounded” by its potential. “I love nanotechnology but I really have not seen a commercialization of it that can make you money in the near term,” Blakeway said. see NANOTECHNOLOGY, page 7