Nanosys, Inc. Named Business Leader in Nanotechnology and Molecular Electronics on the "Scientific American 50"

Palo Alto, CA - (November 19, 2003). Nanosys Inc., a leader in nanotechnology-enabled systems, announced today that it was named 2003 “Business Leader in Nanotechnology” on the “Scientific American 50”. Scientific American’s annual list recognizes superior science and technology contributions and outstanding acts of leadership in the past year. The Scientific American 50 appears in the magazine’s December issue, arriving on newsstand November 25.

Nanosys Inc. is recognized for its business leadership in the field of nanotechnology, having contributed to the discovery, development and integration of nanomaterials with fundamentally unique electronic, optical and magnetic properties into nano-enabled systems applicable in life and physical sciences, information technology, renewable energy and defense.

Selected by the magazine’s Board of Editors with the help of distinguished outside advisors, the Scientific American (SA) 50 spotlights a Research Leader of the Year, a Business Leader of the Year and a Policy Leader of the Year. Recipient individuals and organizations are regarded as having the most potential to make significant technological innovations in the coming decades.

"It is a very special honor to be included in the 2003 Scientific American 50", said Larry Bock, Nanosys Cofounder and Executive Chairman of the Board, “ This award is a testament to our successful approach of bringing together a world class team of outstanding scientists and engineers working towards a common goal to convert the promise of nanotechnology into reality.”

Dr. Wally Parce, Nanosys Chief Technology Officer, commented: "It is exciting to see the Scientific American community recognize the great technological strides and advances made at Nanosys. We are delighted to be viewed as the future of innovation and for our leadership role in the nanotechnology industry.”

About Scientific American

Founded in 1845, editorial contributors to Scientific American have included over 100 Nobel laureates, among them Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Francis Crick, Stanley Prusiner and Harold Varmus. Scientific American Inc. is a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, a U.S. subsidiary of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a privately held international media corporation operating in more than 40 countries.

About Nanosys

Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced technology company, leading the burgeoning nanotechnology industry through the development of nano-enabled systems. These systems incorporate novel and patent-protected nanostructures that integrate functional complexity directly into each individual nanoparticle, enabling the low-cost fabrication of revolutionary high-value, high-performance applications in a broad range of industries from life and physical sciences to information technology and communications to renewable energy and defense. These nanostructures include nanowires, nanorods, nanotetrapods, and nanodots formed from all of the industrially important semiconductor materials as their principal active elements. These systems exploit the fundamentally new and unique electronic, optical, magnetic, interface, and integration properties associated with materials on the nanometer-scale. Nanosys’s initial applications include exquisitely sensitive chemical and biological sensing structures, high performance large area electronics, and lightweight high-efficiency conformal solar cells. Nanosys, Inc. is a highly innovative company combining the best talent and has one of the strongest intellectual property positions in the field of nanotechnology.