"A new way to get inside scoop on oil: Super-tiny robots may be deployed for big strikes of tomorrow"
News feature - Houston Chronicle, May 17, 2009 [PDF]

AEC ISSUES REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Official UT press release
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2008/07/23/consortium-request/

Official Rice University Press Release:
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=11245

Texas-Sized Nanotechnology: AEC's Howard Schmidt for Startup Houston
http://www.startuphouston.com/2008/07/24/texas-sized-nanotechnology/

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AZoNano.com
http://www.azonano.com/News.asp?NewsID=6988

Smalltimes.com
http://www.smalltimes.com/display_article/335217/109/ARTCL/none/none/1/Advanced-Energy-Consortium-funding-micro--and-nanosensor-research-to-boost-energy-production/

MSN Money
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=ACBJ&date=20080724&id=8936380

Austin Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/07/21/daily40.html

Nanovip.com
http://www.nanovip.com/node/53306

Nanitenews.com
http://www.nanitenews.com/Research/Advanced_Energy_Consortium_Issues_Request_for_Proposals_To_Develop_Micro-_and_Nanosensors_to_Boost_Energy_Production.asp

AEC SEEKS TO BOOST ENERGY PRODUCTION

Daily Texas, University of Texas at Austin
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/01/17/University/Oil-Extraction.Nanotechnology.May.Boost.Energy.Production-3155911.shtml