Overview
Nanosys is a privately held company founded in 2001 in Palo Alto to develop nanomaterials for a wide variety of industries, including energy, biotech, and electronics. The technology under Nanosys is covered by over 500 patents, and Nanosys has secured partnerships with many industry leaders, including Intel, In-Q-Tel, NTT DoCoMo, Rockwell Collins, the Sharp Corporation, and the U.S. government. In essence, Nanosys is a company fueled by a rich ecosystem of Nanotech-savvy engineers and business partners that provides nanoscale innovation in high technology industries. Nanosys has received awards from Red Herring magazine, Small Times magazine, Scientific American, and the World Technology Network, and has received over $125M in funding from venture capitalists, private equity firms, and the government.
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Technology
The core technolgy of Nanosys involves piecing together materials atom-by-atom with elements such as Silicon and Gallium with an aim toward maximal control over composition, size, shape, and surface chemistry. As we have seen in earlier technology profiles of nanoshells, dendrimers, and nanotubes, the functional characteristics of a material can be largely dependent on the tiniest manipulations of its matter. Such manipulations can produce a wealth of desirable characteristics in a material such as superconductivity, biological specificity, and unparalleled strength. Nanosys has taken advantage of these properties of nanoscale materials to produce and patent a plethora of new materials with properties that are currently and will continue to remain very valuable in high technology manufacturing.
Products
While Nanosys does not have any products that it considers its own, it has utilized partnerships with industry leaders to develop a range of interesting technologies including flexible electronics, non-volatile memory, fuel cells, solar cells, and nano-surfaces for use in biological assay systems.
News
4.12.2006- Nanosys receives $4.6M in government contracts
11.9.2005 - Nanosys raises $40M in private equity financing led by El Dorado Ventures
5.12.2005 - Nanosys named a Top 100 company by Red Herring magazine
10.12.2004 - Nanosys Wins 2004 World Technology Network Award
12.1.2003 - Nanosys founders selected as top nanotechnology researcher and business leader finalist by Small Times magazine's 2003 Best of Small Tech
11.19.2003 - Nanosys named business leader in nanotechnology and molecular electronics on the "Scientific American 50"
Collaborations
3.6.2007- Nanosys collaborates with Rockwell Collins for development of a nanotechnology enabled optical system
1.11.2007- Nanosys, DoCoMo Capital, and NTT DoCoMo collaborate on the roles of nanotechnology enabled wireless communication
10.11.2005- Nanosys and Sharp expand a collaboration to develop fuel cells to include nanotechnology enabled displays
8.22.2005 - Nanosys and In-Q-Tel expand collaboration to develop nanotechnology enabled phased array antennas for the government
1.14.2004 - Nanosys and Intel collaborate to investigate nanotechnology enabled memory
About Me
- W Raasch
- I am currently a graduate student at the Keck Graduate Institute for business and biotechnology. In addition to studying advances in nanotechnology, I am networking as much as possible and enjoying learning the many intricacies that go into running a modern day biotechnology company. If you have an idea, question, comment, or simply wish to network, do not hesitate to shoot me an email.
2 comments:
interesting post... can companies like this thrive withoiut developing distinct products?/
The best way to look at companies like Nanosys is as manufacturers of intermediate products rather than of final products. That is, while Nanosys may not build the products that you and I end up buying, they build some components of those products. Hence, you may buy nano-enabled display systems made and sold by Sharp with components manufactured by Nanosys.
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