A project to attract investment and clients to a £20m nanotechnology centre at the University of Sheffield will be launched at the Nano Tech 2006 show in Tokyo next week.

The Kroto Research Campus, the result of a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the groups Yorkshire Forward, Sheffield First for Investment and Renaissance South Yorkshire, was opened last year.

Its aim is to provide expertise and facilities for R&D in advanced technologies, including semiconductors and tissue engineering.

"The Kroto Research Campus has been established to create and nurture an environment in which multidisciplinary research can flourish," said Professor Sir Harold Kroto, an alumnus of the University.

Kroto received the Nobel prize for Chemistry for the discovery of the football-shaped allotrope of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene.

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