UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 8-K
Current Report
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
November 29, 2006
CVD Equipment Corporation
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
New York 1-16525 11-2621692
(State or other (Commission (IRS Employer
jurisdiction File No.) Identification No.)
of incorporation)
1860 Smithtown Ave. Ronkonkoma, New York 11779
(Address of Principal Executive Office)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
(631) 981-7081
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
On November 29, 2006, the University of Cincinnati issued
the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange
Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly
authorized.
CVD EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
/s/ Leonard A. Rosenbaum
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Leonard A. Rosenbaum, Chairman
of the Board, CEO and President
Dated December 1, 2006
Exhibit 99.1
University of Cincinnati Researchers Grow Their
Longest Carbon Nanotube Ever
A nanospace race has raged to successfully grow a
nanotube array suitable for many uses. And today a UC
research team, in conjunction with First Nano, is ahead
- by a thousandth of a hair.
Date: 11/29/2006
By: Wendy Beckman
Phone: (513) 556-1826
Other Contact: Vesselin Shanov, PhD
Other Contact Phone: (513) 556-2461
Nanotechnology revolves around the creation of
technology - films, materials, devices, applications and
systems - on a scale of 1-100 nanometers. But what is a
nanometer? A nanometer is one billionth of a meter or 40
billionths of an inch. A human hair is between 50 and
100 microns wide - and a micron is 1,000 nanometers. A
DNA molecule is about 2 1/2 nanometers wide. A typical
human hair is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometers
wide. So, we could stack at least 1000 nano-devices
across the end of a human hair.
The Largest of the Small
It might sound like an oxymoron, but long nanotubes are
critical to manufacturers and practitioners in such
fields as transportation, defense, safety and medicine.
Because of their increased surface area, large nanotube
arrays offer improvements in sensors. Larger nanotubes
can be "spun" - or suspended in an epoxy-like substrate
- and used to strengthen materials used in airplanes,
for example. Like your great-grandmother's yarn, the
longer a continuous thread, the better. In
conjunction with First Nano (FN), a division of CVD
Equipment Corporation, UC has grown an array on FN's
EasyTube Carbon Nanotube system that is longer than 7 mm.
"The harmonious combination of substrate, alloy catalyst
and process conditions was found to consistently produce
nanotube arrays more than 7 mm long" says Professor
Vesselin Shanov, co-director of Smart Materials
Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of
Cincinnati (UC). In recognition for its commitment to
nanotechnology education at both the graduate and
undergraduate level, UC is ranked #2 in the United
States for nanotechnology education by Small Times
magazine. "First Nano and UC have collaborated in the
past and are planning on future collaboration to scale
up production of nanotube arrays for applications that
man has only dreamed of, like a super-strong cable for a
space elevator and featherweight composite materials for
sporting goods, aircraft structures, armor and many more
uses."
Leonard Rosenbaum, President and Chief Executive Officer
of CVD Equipment Corporation states, "We look forward to
continuing our relationship with the University of
Cincinnati to bring this technology from the laboratory
into full-scale production."
Synthesis of Macro Scale Carbon Nanotube Arrays
The recent breakthroughs at the University of Cincinnati
and CVD Equipment Corporation (of Ronkonkoma, New York),
have led to the growth of large carbon nanotube arrays.
While individual carbon nanotubes are only 20 billionths
of a meter in diameter, the array of carbon nanotubes
grow as millimeter-long dense forests on centimeter-wide
substrates. Years of research by UC's Shanov, Schulz and
students Andrew Gorton and Yun YeoHeung led to the
invention of the method for growing the large nanotube
arrays. Researchers and engineers at CVD Equipment
Corporation developed and built the equipment used to
grow the large carbon nanotube arrays.