Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. |
Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Altair) is primarily engaged in developing and commercializing nanomaterial and titanium dioxide pigment technologies. The Company is organized into two divisions: Performance Materials and Life Sciences. The Performance Materials segment produces advanced materials for paints, coatings, sensors, power systems, alternative energy devices and materials for process technologies. The Life Sciences segment produces pharmaceutical products, drug delivery products and dental materials. Altair also provides contract research services on select projects where it can utilize its resources to develop intellectual property and/or new products and technology. As of December 31, 2005, the Company's research, development, production, marketing and sales efforts are directed toward six market applications: advanced materials, air and water treatment, alternative energy, lanthanum-based pharmaceutical products, chemical delivery products and biocompatible materials.
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ASML Holding N.V. |
ASML is a world leader in the manufacture of advanced technology systems for the semiconductor industry. The company offers an integrated portfolio for manufacturing complex integrated circuits (also called ICs or chips). ASML designs, develops, integrates, markets and services advanced systems used by customers – the major global semiconductor manufacturers – to create chips that power a wide array of electronic, communications and information technology products. With every generation, the complexity of producing integrated circuits with more functionality increases. Semiconductor manufacturers need partners that provide technology and complete process solutions. ASML is committed to providing customers with leading edge technology that is production-ready at the earliest possible date. ASML technology is supported by process solutions, enabling customers to gain and sustain a competitive edge in the marketplace.
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BASF SE |
BASF SE, formerly BASF AG, is a transnational chemical holding company for more than 300 subsidiaries and affiliates. It has five business segments. Chemicals offers products for pharmaceuticals, construction, textile and automotive industries, such as basic petrochemicals, inorganic chemicals, intermediates and specialties. Plastics provides engineering plastics for plastic molders and manufacturers in various industries, as well as polyurethanes for different applications. Performance Products manufactures performance chemicals, coatings and functional polymers for the automotive, oil, paper, packaging, textile, sanitary care, construction, coatings, printing and leather industries. Agricultural Products and Nutrition supplies agricultural products and fine chemicals to the farming, food processing, pharmaceuticals, animal and human nutrition and personal care industries. Oil and Gas explores and produces crude oil and natural gas. BASF SE is based in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
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BIO-GATE AG |
Bio-Gate is specialized in equipping materials and surfaces, in all areas where a high level of hygiene is needed, with microsized or nanosized silver particles to offer a long lasting protection against bacteria, fungi and other unwanted germs. Bio-Gate' silver particle manufacturing is carried out using a unique, state-of-the art process, which was developed together with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a shareholder of Bio-Gate. We see ourselves as a supplier of a unique technology, combining scientific know how with successful commercial applications. The headquarters of Bio-Gate, which was founded in the year 2000 as a spin off from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, are in Nürnberg, where our microbial testing laboratory QualityLabs BT is located. The production of nanosilver, compounding of nanosilver in plastics and nanocomposite material development is located at our subsidiary in Bremen.
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Biophan Technologies, Inc. |
Biophan Technologies, Inc. (Biophan) develops and commercially exploits technologies for improving the performance of biomedical devices manufactured by third-party companies. The Company has licensed certain of its technology to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. Biophan is developing its biothermal power system in collaboration with the NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology. The Company has developed or in the process of developing enhanced technology for pacemakers, implantable cardio-defibrillators, neurostimulators, stents, Vena Cava filters, heart valves, cardiovascular technologies, guidewires and catheters, drug pumps, drug delivery systems and power systems (batteries). Biophan's capabilities include making these devices both safe for use with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and image compatible with MRI (many devices have imaging problems with MRI, such as visualizing stents for in-stent restenosis.
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Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Biosante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Biosante) is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company that is developing a pipeline of hormone therapy products to treat men and women. Hormone therapy gel products include Bio-E-Gel, LibiGel, Bio-E/P-Gel, LibiGel-E/T and Bio-T-Gel Symptoms addressed by these hormone therapies include impotence, lack of sex drive, muscle weakness and osteoporosis in men and menopausal symptoms in women, including hot flashes, vaginal atrophy, decreased libido and osteoporosis. The Company is also engaged in the development of its calcium phosphate (CaP) nanotechnology, for vaccine adjuvants or immune system boosters and drug delivery systems. CaP products in development are BioVant, BioOral and BioAir.
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EPG (Engineered nanoProducts Germany) AG |
Engineered nanoProducts Germany AG develops and manufactures added value customized products on a nanobasis for global markets - special materials, elements and components. One of the main fields of nanotechnology is the surface technology because the multiplying factor achieved here is extremely high: Even with small quantities of tailor-made nanomaterials, exceptional technological effects can be produced. Products with nanocoating can give enterprises of many branches of industry a competitive edge. On the other hand, EPG also designs and manufactures customized products completely generated from nanomaterials, among others, for the automotive industry, optics and energy generation. EPG‘s surface technology focuses on the following three business sectors, some of which are in part still being established: New high performance metal coatings, Hygienic surface technologies, New high performance surface technology on plastics with special functions and special focus on intelligent films and for optics. The fourth sector comprises multifunctional high-performance binding agents on a nanotechnology basis with special focus on new technologies for energy saving, crude oil and natural gas production.
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FEI Company |
FEI Company is a supplier of products and systems that enable research, development and manufacture of nanoscale features by helping its customers to image, characterize, analyze and modify three-dimensional structures. The Company's products include transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), focused ion-beam systems (FIBs), DualBeam systems that combine a FIB column and a SEM column on a single platform and software systems for computer-aided-design (CAD) navigation and yield management. FEI also designs, manufactures and sells some of the components of electron microscopes and FIBs to other manufacturers and provides service and support on its equipment. The Company serves customers in the semiconductor, data storage and industry and institute markets in 50 countries. FEI provides products or services to these markets through its four segments: Microelectronics, Electron Optics, Service and Components.
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Flamel Technologies S.A. |
Flamel Technologies S.A. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of two polymer-based delivery technologies for medical applications. The Company's Micropump technology is a multiparticulate technology for oral administration of small-molecule drugs with applications in controlled-release and bioavailability enhancement. The Company's products are based on its Micropump technology: Trigger Lock, an adaptation of Micropump for the controlled release of active ingredients subject to abuse; Micropump-enabled formulation of omeprazole for control of gastric-reflux disease; Genvir, for the treatment of genital herpes; Metformin XL, a form of Metformin for use in the treatment of Type II diabetes; co-amoxiclav is a Micropump-enabled formulation of the active ingredient in Augmentin for pediatric and geriatric use, and Asacard, for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. In March 2005, Flamel terminated a partnership with Biovail for the development and marketing of Genvir.
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Harris & Harris Group, Inc. |
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. is a venture capital company specializing in tiny technology that operates as a non-diversified business development company (BDC). The Company's investment focuses to achieve capital appreciation by making venture capital investments in early stage companies. As a venture capital company, the Company invests in and provides managerial assistance to its portfolio companies that have potential for growth. Harris & Harris Group makes initial venture capital investments exclusively in tiny technology, which it defines as microsystems, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology.
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Headwaters Incorporated |
Headwaters Incorporated (Headwaters) is a diversified company providing products, technologies and services in two industries: construction materials, including coal combustion products (CCPs), and alternative energy. The Company operates in three segments: construction materials, CCPs and alternative energy. The construction materials segment includes the manufacture and distribution of bagged concrete, stucco, mortar and block products. The CCP segment manages and markets CCPs, such as fly ash and bottom ash. The alternative energy segment includes the Company's legacy coal-based solid alternative fuels business, and coal cleaning, coal drying, ethanol and the commercialization of catalyst technologies. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, Headwaters acquired certain assets of several companies in the construction materials industry. In November 2006, the Company acquired 100% of the ownership interests of a company in the construction materials business.
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JENOPTIK AG |
As a comprehensive optoelectronics group, Jenoptik divides its activities into five divisions: Lasers & Material Processing, Optical Systems, Industrial Metrology, Traffic Solutions and Defense & Civil Systems. Jenoptik's Lasers & Material Processing division makes it one of the leading providers of laser technology - from component through to complete system. The increased productivity from which our customers benefit is the key factor in the use of Jenoptik laser technology. With its Optical Systems division the Jenoptik Group is one of the few manufacturers in the world to produce precision optics designed to meet the highest quality standards. The division is a development and production partner for optical, micro-optical and optical coating components, opto-mechanical and opto-electronical assemblies, modules and systems - made of glass, crystal as well as plastic. It possesses outstanding expertise in the development and manufacture of micro-optics for beam shaping used in the se miconductor industry and laser material processing. The product portfolio also includes components and systems for life sciences as well as lighting & energy applications, cameras and camera components for the world of professional digital photography, cameras for digital microscopy and macroscopy as well as digital imaging modules for integration within industrial image capture and processing systems. In the area of industrial metrology Jenoptik is a leading manufacturer and system provider for high-precision, contact and non-contact production metrology. The range of products and services covers total solutions for a wide range of measurement tasks such as testing roughness, contour and form as well as determining dimensions - in-process, post-process or in the metrology room. The product program is rounded off by a comprehensive range of services involving advice, training and customer service, including long-term maintenance agreements. For the security and aerospace industry Jenoptik offers opto-elect roic instruments, multi-spectral camera systems for earth observation, sensors for satellite guidance, navigation and control as well as software. In the area of optical sensors the focus is on laser distance measurement equipment for industry and defense, laser sensors for battle simulation, environmental sensor systems and measurement technology for meteorology as well as on infrared camera systems for use in thermography, security technology and night vision.
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JMAR Technologies, Inc. |
JMAR Technologies, Inc. (JMAR) is a developer of laser-based technologies for nano-scale imaging, analysis and fabrication. JMAR's product, BioSentry, is a contamination warning system for waterborne microorganisms. BioSentry uses laser-based, multi-angle light scattering technology to provide continuous, online and real-time monitoring for harmful bacteria and protozoa. BioSentry is targeted towards a number of applications across multiple industries, including homeland security, the cruise ship and beverage industry, pharmaceutical companies and municipal drinking water utilities. JMAR is also targeting the nanotechnology, bioscience and semiconductor industries with its Britelight Laser, X-ray Light Source, Compact X-ray Microscope for three-dimensional (3D) visualization of single cells and polymers, and X-ray Nano Probe, which enables nano-scale interaction, analysis and materials modification.
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Kopin Corporation |
Kopin Corporation develops and manufactures Gallium Arsenide-based heterojunction bipolar transistor wafers (HBT transistor wafers) and other commercial semiconductor products that use Gallium Nitride and Gallium Arsenide-based substrates. The Company collectively refers to its products based on compound semiconductor materials, including HBT transistor wafers and CyberLite LEDs, as III-V products because it uses elements categorized on the III and V columns of the periodic table of elements to manufacture such products. Its primary III-V product is HBT transistor wafer, which are customer-specific arrays of vertically oriented transistors that customers use primarily to produce high-performance integrated circuits for wireless communications products. Kopin also manufactures CyberDisplay products, which are miniature, high-performance, high-resolution flat panel displays that are designed for consumer electronics, military and next generation mobile communications devices.
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mPhase Technologies, Inc. |
mPhase Technologies, Inc., a development company, specializes in microfluidics, microelectromechanical systems, and nanotechnology. The company, through its subsidiary, AlwaysReady, Inc., focuses on commercializing Smart NanoBattery, which provides Power On Command™ for military and commercial applications. Its patented battery technology, based on the phenomenon of electrowetting, stores energy and manages power. The technology of Smart NanoBattery is a porous nanostructured material that could be designed for self-cleaning applications, water purification/desalination, liquid filtration/separation, and drug delivery. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Little Falls, New Jersey with additional offices in Norwalk, Connecticut; and New York, New York.
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MTS Systems Corporation |
MTS Systems Corporation is a global supplier of test systems and high-performance industrial position sensors. The Company's testing solutions help customers accelerate and improve their design, development and manufacturing processes. Its high-performance position sensors provide controls for a variety of industrial and vehicular applications. The Company helps its customers design, develop and produce their products. The Company operates in two business segments: the Test segment and the Industrial segment. Customers of the Test segment use the Company's products, systems, software and services for research, product development and quality control to determine the mechanical properties and performance of materials, products and structures. Customers of the Industrial segment use the Company's measurement and control instrumentation products to measure process variables and to automate production processes.
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NanoCarrier Co., Ltd. |
NanoCarriers key business objective is to deliver new pharmaceuticals primarily in the area of cancer to society through the use of micellar nanoparticle technology as core technology developed based on nanotechnology, which originates in Japan. NanoCarrier is focusing particularly on cancer therapy, in which there is a pressing need for more effective therapies. "We are strongly committed to research and development through which we strive to develop cutting-edge pharmaceuticals to meet the needs of many patients suffering from cancer." Conventional anticancer agents show similar cytotoxic effects on cancerous and normal cells. The administration of these agents generally causes adverse reactions because it is distributed to the entire body, affecting normal cells as well. Although prophylactic medications can control adverse reactions to some extent, they are often difficult to avoid altogether, and sometimes limit the use of chemotherapy. NanoCarriers pharmaceutical products, using the micellar nanoparticle technology, are expected to accumulate more in cancerous lesions, thereby reducing drug distribution to normal cells, and reducing the occurrence of adverse reactions.
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Nanogen, Inc. |
Nanogen, Inc., develops diagnostic products that enable physicians to deliver improved patient care. Its products allow faster and easier diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of cardiovascular disease and a range of infectious diseases. The company's products include molecular diagnostic kits and reagents, and kits for rapid point-of-care testing. Nanogen has pioneered the development of biomarkers, molecular biology technologies and nanotechnology to bring better results to diagnostics and healthcare.
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Neo Material Technologies Inc. |
Neo Material Technologies Inc., formerly known as AMR Technologies Inc., is a producer, processor and developer of neodymium-ironboron (neo) powders, rare earths and zirconium-based engineered materials. The Company operates in two divisions: Magnequench and Performance Materials. The Magnequench division is a producer of neo powder used in the production of high-performance, bonded neo permanent magnets, which are used in micro motors, precision motors and sensors. The Performance Materials division manufactures oxides and salts of rare earth elements, which include cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, yttrium, dysprosium and terbium. The division also produces zirconium oxides and salts, and a line of mixed rare earth/zirconium oxides. Rare earth and zirconium applications include catalytic converters, computers, television display panels, optical lenses, mobile phones and electronic chips. In a reverse takeover, on August 31, 2005, Magnequench Inc. acquired more than 50% of the Company.
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OBDUCAT AB |
Obducat is the world-leading supplier of lithography solutions for manufacturing and replication of advanced micro- and nano- scale structures. Obducat develops and sells lithography solutions for production and replication of advanced micro- and nanostructures for industrial mass production and for research and development. Sales include equipment, stampers, process optimization, and licenses. Obducat also offers Scanning electron microscopes for metrology purposes. Obducat technologies enable the development and cost efficient manufacturing of next generation consumer products such as cameras, hard disks for mobile phones, flat panel displays for TVs and next generation optical media format HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Our customers are leading producers in the consumer-electronic business. Obducat has offices in Sweden and the UK with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden.
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pSivida Corporation |
pSivida is a global drug delivery company committed to the biomedical sector and the development of drug delivery products. Retisert® is FDA approved for the treatment of uveitis. Vitrasert® is FDA approved for the treatment of AIDS-related CMV Retinitis. Bausch & Lomb owns the trademarks Vitrasert® and Retisert®. pSivida has licensed the technologies underlying both of these products to Bausch & Lomb. The technology underlying Medidur™ for diabetic macular edema is licensed to Alimera Sciences and is in Phase III clinical trials. pSivida has a worldwide collaborative research and license agreement with Pfizer Inc. for other ophthalmic applications of the Medidur™ technology (excluding FA). pSivida owns the rights to develop and commercialize a modified form of silicon (porosified or nano-structured silicon) known as BioSilicon™, which has applications in drug delivery, wound healing, orthopedics, and tissue engineering. The most advanced BioSilicon™ product, BrachySil™, delivers a therapeutic, P32 directly to solid tumors and is presently in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. pSivida’s intellectual property portfolio consists of 68 patent families, 118 granted patents, including patents accepted for issuance and 275 patent applications. pSivida conducts its operations from Boston in the United States, Malvern in the United Kingdom and Perth in Australia.
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Suess MicroTec AG |
Suess MicroTec AG is a Germany-based manufacturer of production and test devices for the semiconductor industry. The Company's products include: lithography products, including spin and spray coaters, mask aligners and clusters, which incorporate coater, developer, exposure and alignment cells within a production line; device bonders, which connect individual electronic components to one another, and substrate bonders, which support bond technologies such as anodic bonding, fusion, and thermocompression bonding. Its test and inspection products include a wide range of probers, software support and measuring systems. It also offers equipment for wet processing procedures, such as lift-off, developing, cleaning, resist stripping and oxide etching, as well as solutions for the transferal of the image of nanostructures into a polymer layer through embossing, stamping and molding. Suess MicroTec AG is based in Garching, near Munich and has production and distribution facilities worldwide.
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Symyx Technologies, Inc. |
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Symyx) develops and applies high-throughput research technologies and research software for customers in the chemical, energy, pharmaceutical, electronics and other industries. The Company performs research for its customers, sells high-throughput automated instruments called Symyx Tools, license Symyx Software, and licenses its discovered materials, sensors and some of its intellectual property. The Company operates in five segments: Symyx Research Collaborations, Symyx Tools, Symyx Software, Symyx Sensors, and Materials and IP Licensing. During the year ended December 31, 2005, Symyx enabled further modularization of its Symyx Tools systems with the introduction of Extended Core Module (XCM), an update to its CORE(x) module. The Company acquired Synthematix, Inc. (Synthematix) in April 2005.
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Veeco Instruments Inc. |
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Veeco) designs, manufactures, markets and services a line of equipment primarily used by manufacturers in the data storage, research and industrial, semiconductor, high-brightness light emitting diode and wireless industries. The Company has three business segments: Ion Beam and Mechanical Process Equipment, Epitaxial Process Equipment and Metrology. It produces and sells several types of process equipment products capable of depositing or etching thin film products, primarily used in the manufacture of data storage components, such as thin film magnetic heads and compound semiconductor/wireless devices. Veeco's metal organic chemical vapor deposition systems reactors are used in the growth of III-V compounds for compound semiconductor applications, including data and telecommunications modules, cellular telephones and solar cells. Its surface metrology product line includes atomic force/scanning probe microscopes, optical metrology tools and stylus profilers.
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VITA 34 International AG |
You are looking forward to the birth of your baby, making plans and set the first course for your child. What you want the most is that your child stays healthy. Today at the delivery, you have already the possibility to take precautions – by the storage of umbilical cord blood. Umbilical cord blood is rich in stem cells. These stem cells may save the life of your child – starting in the first years to the advanced age. They are already successfully applied in cancer therapy. In the future, stem cells can be applied in the treatment of other hardly treatable diseases as heart attack, rheumatism, or multiple sclerosis. Just recently, there has been saved the life of a child whose umbilical cord blood had been stored at VITA 34. "You want the best for your child, we help you Nearly 90 percent of the families storing umbilical cord blood in Germany, trust in VITA 34. This confidence is the motivation for our physicians, biologists, and lab experts to continue to work in accordance with the best possible security and quality standards for the stem cell storage and to develop these standards actively."
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Xradia, Inc. |
Located in Concord, California, near the heart of Silicon Valley, Xradia designs, develops and manufactures high-resolution 3D x-ray microscopes and x-ray imaging systems. Formed in 2000, Xradia is a privately held Delaware corporation that was established to commercialize the design and processing of zone plate optics for the development of state of the art x-ray microscope systems. Because of their unique optical design, Xradia’s microscopes feature full 360° 3D tomography and the world’s only sub 100nm x-ray microscope system. The company has combined its core technology and extensive patent portfolio in x-ray optical components, with system concept and design and proprietary image processing software to develop an entirely new class of x-ray imaging instruments. Xradia’s products include the nanoXCT™ sub-60nm resolution 3D x-ray microscope for die-level inspection, defect review and failure analysis; the MicroXCT™ 1.5µm resolution 3D microscope for semiconductor packaging inspection, defect detection and failure analysis, and the new nanoXFi™, sub 80nm resolution x-ray fluorescence imager. Introduced in July of 2005, the nanoXFi is a unique x-ray imaging technology for use in conjunction with electron beam platforms, such as SEMs, TEMs and e-beam metrology tools. The nanoXFi provides element-specific, high-resolution, sub-surface mapping of structural features or defects within semiconductor wafers or other samples. While finding initial application in semiconductor metrology, the nanoXFi represents a significant new imaging technology for semiconductor inspection and general microscopy as well.Central to the importance of high-resolution x-ray imaging for semiconductor inspection is the ability of x-rays to penetrate up to several millimeters of material, thereby enabling non-destructive analysis and inspection. The combination of no sample preparation with non-destructive analysis means faster turn-around time and more meaningful inspection data. Combining these features with true 3D tomography means that even the most subtle and challenging failures and defects can be fully and quickly revealed. From Semiconductors to advanced materials and life sciences, Xradia’s microscope systems are providing unique and powerful new vision tools, enabling new advances in science and cost-saving solutions to industry.
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