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NanoSonic, Inc. develops
revolutionary new molecular self-assembly processes that allow
the controlled synthesis of material structure at the nanometer
level and the manufacturing of new materials with designed novel
and useful engineering constitutive behaviors. Most of these materials
have the added advantage of being synthesized at room temperature
and pressure on a wide variety of substrate materials using a
process that is environmentally benign.
NanoSonic, based in Blacksburg,
Va., was created in 1998 in cooperation with Virginia Tech, the
state's leading research university, and with the State of Virginia.
NanoSonic has exclusively licensed nine patents covering electrostatic
self-assembly (ESA) processing and use from Virginia Tech and
is establishing its own intellectual property portfolio to enable
process, material, and device commercialization. ESA allows the
ultra-uniform formation of multiple, nanometer-thick layers of
material into functional ultrathin films, and recent improvements
allow the formation of much thicker films and bulk materials.
NanoSonic has created a "library" of such self-assembled
materials, many of them based on ESA processing, and has demonstrated
the synthesis of more than 2000 individual material layers. |
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