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"Pickett worked in the lab in his 'spare time',
and devised a synthesis process that could
produce large quantities of quantum dots to
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Why Manchester?
Chart illustrates the factors that influenced Nanoco Group
The company has now developed pilot scale-up
operations based in existing industrial sites in Runcorn.
Full-scale manufacture will be carried out by industrial
partners such as Dow Chemicals and while Nanoco now
has a number of global partnerships with companies, the
headquarters remain in Manchester as its employees want
to remain here and it gives Nanoco the advantage of
remaining close to its University R&D facilities.
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