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                                                                                       News Release
                                                                                                                      
--->TSXV, Tier 1: "NTS"
                                                                                                                      
--->   OTCQX: "NTSFF"




                     Nanotech Grants Options and Restricted Share Units


VANCOUVER, British Columbia   January 4, 2018   Nanotech Security Corp. (TSXV: NTS) (OTCQX: NTSFF),
a leading innovator in the design and production of advanced security products for the anti-counterfeiting
market, announces the granting of 417,500 share purchase options to directors and officers. The options
are for five years at $1.40 and brings the total options granted to 3.6% of outstanding shares. The Company
has also granted 233,533 restricted share units of which 187,667 are to directors and officers.

About Nanotech Security
Nanotech designs, manufactures and markets nano-optic products that have brand protection and
enhancement applications across a wide range of markets including banknotes, tax stamps, secure
government documents, commercial branding, and the pharmaceutical industry.

The Company's nano-optic technology employs arrays of billions of nano-indentations that are impressed
or embossed onto a substrate material such as polymer, paper, metal, or fabric. By using sophisticated
algorithms to direct an electron beam, the Company creates visual images with colour shifting effects such
as 3D, perceived movement, and can also display high-definition colours including skin tones, and whites
and blacks, which are not possible using holographic technology.

Additional information about Nanotech can be found at the Company's website www.nanosecurity.ca, the
Canadian disclosure filings website www.sedar.com or the OTCMarkets disclosure filings website
www.otcmarkets.com.

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   Nanotech Security Corp:                              Canada Investor Relations:           U.S. Investor Relations:
   Doug Blakeway                                        Sean Peasgood                        Matthew Selinger
   info@nanosecurity.ca                                 sean@SophicCapital.com               mselinger@threepa.com
                                                        +1.416.565.2805                      +1.817.310.8776


                Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in poli
--->cies
                    of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.




                                                                                                          NANOTECH SEC
--->URITY CORP.
                                                                                                          505 - 3292 P
--->roduction Way
                                                                                                          Burnaby, B.C
--->. V5A 4R4
TRADING ON THE TSX.V as NTS   TRADING IN THE USA ON THE OTCQX as
(A TIER 1 LISTED COMPANY)     NTSFF
                                                                                                          www.nanosecu
--->rity.ca
                                                                                                          Office: +1.6
--->04.678.5775
 

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Nanotech Grants Options and Restricted Share Units


VANCOUVER, British Columbia - January 4, 2018 - Nanotech Security Corp. (TSXV: NTS) (OTCQX: NTSFF), a leading innovato
--->r in the design and production of advanced security products for the anti-counterfeiting market, announces the grantin
--->g of 417,500 share purchase options to directors and officers.  The options are for five years at $1.40 and brings the
---> total options granted to 3.6% of outstanding shares.  The Company has also granted 233,533 restricted share units of 
--->which 187,667 are to directors and officers.

About Nanotech Security
Nanotech designs, manufactures and markets nano-optic products that have brand protection and enhancement applications
---> across a wide range of markets including banknotes, tax stamps, secure government documents, commercial branding, and
---> the pharmaceutical industry.  

The Company's nano-optic technology employs arrays of billions of nano-indentations that are impressed or embossed ont
--->o a substrate material such as polymer, paper, metal, or fabric.  By using sophisticated algorithms to direct an elect
--->ron beam, the Company creates visual images with colour shifting effects such as 3D, perceived movement, and can also 
--->display high-definition colours including skin tones, and whites and blacks, which are not possible using holographic 
--->technology.

Additional information about Nanotech can be found at the Company's website www.nanosecurity.ca, the Canadian disclosu
--->re filings website www.sedar.com or the OTCMarkets disclosure filings website www.otcmarkets.com.

# # #

Nanotech Security Corp:
 Canada Investor Relations:
 U.S. Investor Relations:
 
 Doug Blakeway
 Sean Peasgood
 Matthew Selinger
 
 info@nanosecurity.ca
 sean@SophicCapital.com
 mselinger@threepa.com
 
 
 +1.416.565.2805
 +1.817.310.8776
 
 

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies  of the TSX
---> Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.