Nanometrics Inc. Even after wildly successful year in the stock market, public companies working in this field would still be considered microcap investments. The nanotech stock boom might even remind you of all those old booms because there is so much real promise behind the hype. It involves companies trying to create and manipulate materials no larger than billionth of meter about 100,000 of those equal the diameter of human hair. Harris & Harris Group Inc., public venture capital firm that trades in tiny technology companies, has soared percent over the past year.

became Nanobac Pharmaceuticals Inc., US Global Aerospace Inc. Chemist Charles Lieber at Harvard, engineer Subra Suresh at MIT, and geneticist Susan Lindquist at MITs Whitehead Institute are just three highprofile examples of the local scientists pursuing nanotechnology. Lieber became founder of Nanosys Inc. of Woburn, traces its roots back to Liebers lab at Harvard.Its not big field, but its gotten off to good and interesting start, says Joe McNay of Essex Investment Management in Boston. Just like the Internet, biotech, and telecom, nanotechnology almost certainly will produce valuable new things, eventually. Its very early, but its showing up on the horizon now.

Steven Syre is Globe columnist. He can be reached at syreglobe. com. Copyright Globe Newspaper Company. Chemist Charles Lieber at Harvard, engineer Subra Suresh at MIT, and geneticist Susan Lindquist at MITs Whitehead Institute are just three highprofile examples of the local scientists pursuing nanotechnology. Lieber became founder of Nanosys Inc. Harris & Harris Group Inc., public venture capital firm that trades in tiny technology companies, has soared percent over the same period. Its very early, but its showing up on the horizon now.Several leading nanotechnology stocks had doubled or tripled through the first months of last year.

of Woburn, traces its roots back to Liebers lab at Harvard.Its not big field, but its gotten off to good and interesting start, says Joe McNay of Essex Investment Management in Boston. But it doesnt give you good reason to invest in of the nano stocks at todays prices. Some companies have changed their names to feed off the investment buzz, like the businesses that added .com to their names few years of Palo Alto, Calif., closely followed startup that agreed to collaborate on nanotech research with Intel Corp.

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