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SAMMS A GRAND AWARD WINNER IN POPULAR SCIENCE!

Steward Advanced Materials Thiol-SAMMS® Selected by Popular Science Magazine for 2009 BOWN Award

Chattanooga, TN., November 12, 2009 – Steward Advanced Materials, Inc., today announced that its thiol-SAMMS® adsorbent, a molecularly engineered material specifically designed to solve complex heavy metal remediation issues, was selected by Popular Science magazine as the Grand Award winner for Green Technologies in the magazine’s prestigious Best of What’s New (BOWN) awards for 2009.

Each year, the editors of Popular Science review thousands of products in search of innovative, breakthrough products and technologies making a significant contribution in their respective categories. They narrow these down to the top 100 innovations of the year in 11 categories, and then select the Grand Award winner for each category. The Best of What's New winners are awarded inclusion in the much-anticipated December issue of Popular Science, the magazine’s most widely read issue of the year.

“For 22 years, Popular Science has honored the innovations that surprise and amaze us—those that make a positive impact on our world today and challenge our views of what’s possible in the future,” said Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. “The Best of What’s New Award is the magazine’s top honor, and the 100 winners—chosen from among thousands of entrants—represent the highest level of achievement in their fields.”

SAMMS® is an exciting technology platform with broad applications in the remediation and water treatment markets. SAMMS® (Self Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Supports) are created by attaching a monolayer of molecules to mesoporous supports, both of which can be tailored for a specific contaminant and application. SAMMS® offers fast kinetics, high capacity, excellent selectivity and the ability to meet TCLP regulations for disposal as non-hazardous waste. It has proven successful in reducing mercury levels to single ppt (parts per trillion) levels, such as the 1.3 ppt level set by the Great Lakes Initiative.

“Popular Science magazine’s recognition of Thiol-SAMMS® as one of the most highly-innovative, breakthrough products of 2009 further confirms its enormous potential to remove various heavy metals from many different types of waste streams,” said Chuck Mills, President of Steward Advanced Materials. “Our challenge is to educate the public including researchers, industries and agencies that a new technology is finally commercially available to clean up our environment at an economical cost, and this recognition by Popular Science will certainly help us spread the message!”