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Nanotube
Ten To Watch (MIT Technology Review, March 2002)
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Carbon
Nanotechnologies
(Houston,
TX)
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Exclusive
license for technology at Rice University by Richard Smalley |
Produce
and sell commercial-scale quantities of nanotubes |
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Covalent
Materials
(Emeryville,
CA )
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Founded
by UC Berkeley Physicists Alex Zettl and Marvin Cohen |
Rationally
design and synthesize novel nanotubes and nanowires |
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IBM Research
(Yorktown
Heights, NY)
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Team
led by Phaedon Avouris has made numerous nanotube advances |
Build
integrated circuits out of nanotubes |
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Ise Electronics
(Mie,
Japan)
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Collaboration
with Yahachi Saito, a leading nanotube researcher at Mie Univ. |
Develop
nanotube-based field emission devices for outdoor displays |
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Nantero
(Woburn,
MA)
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Founded
on technology licensed from Harvard Univ., has raised $6 million
in VC funding |
Fabricate
nonvolatile electronic memory using nanotubes |
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Molecular
Nanosystems
(Palo
Alto, CA)
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Co-founded
by Stanford University researcher Hongjie Dai, has technology
for growing arrays of nanotubes |
Use
proprietary synthesis technology to make arrays of biological
and chemical sensors and field emission devices |
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Motorola
Research labs
(Tempe,
AZ)
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Research
team experienced in developing field emission displays |
Research
on flat-panel displays using nanotubes |
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Nanosys
(Palo
Alto, CA)
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Licensing
agreement with Harvard Univ. for nanowire technology by Charles
Lieber, has raised $1.7 M |
Build
up a portfolio of nanodots, nanotubes and nanowires for optoelectronics
and nanoelectronics |
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NEC research
(Tsukuba,
Japan)
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Team
headed by Sumio Iijima, discoverer of nanotubes |
Develop
nanotubes as electrodes for use in fuel cells |
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Samsung
Advanced Instutute of Technology
(Suwon,
South Korea)
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One
of the largest cooperate research groups dedicated to developing
nanotube displays |
Commercialize
flat-screen TV based on field emission devices using nanotubes |
About Molecular
Nanosystems, Inc.
Molecular Nanosystems, Inc. is engaged in research, development,
production and distribution of nanotube-oriented products and systems
using leading-edge nanotechnologies. Its suite of nanotube-based
end products are intended to provide improvements in scale, density,
sensitivity, selectivity, integration and power consumption. These
products will have a fundamental impact in electronic, biological
and chemical industries. Molecular Nanosystems was founded in 2001
by Dr. Hongjie Dai, an Associate Professor at Stanford University
and a world-renowned scholar and scientist in the nanotechnology
research field. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Molecular
Nanosystems can be found online at
www.monano.com.
Molecular Nanosystems
(650) 846-2519
info@monano.com
©2001 Molecular Nanosystems.
All rights reserved.
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