The southeast is one of the top areas for nanotech in the country. Some of the key players include:

3rdTECH
Private
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
www.3rdtech.com
3rdTech’s NanoManipulator Interactive Visualization and Control System for Scanning Probe Microscopes is an interface for ThermoMicroscopes Scanning Probe Microscopes that provides a high-performance, real-time haptic display, 3D graphics, and comprehensive record and replay for sample manipulation and visualization.

AeroAstro
Private
Ashburn, Virginia
www.aeroastro.com
AeroAstro has been designing and developing miniaturized space hardware and technology since 1988. Company has developed and built several microsatellites and numerous space systems and components. Company also engages in engineering services and spacecraft architecture consulting.

Baikowski International
Private
Charlotte, North Carolina
www.baikowski.com
Baikowski International Corporation, BIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baikowski Chimie, Annecy, France. Products high purity alumina, white fused alumina.

CardioMEMS
Private
Atlanta, Georgia
www.cardiomems.com
CardioMEMS, Inc. is a medical device company that uses Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology to create breakthrough devices for the diagnosis, treatment and management of serious diseases.

Coventor
Private
Cary, North Carolina
www.coventor.com
Coventor, Inc. provides CoventorWare software for MEMS device and system design, MEMS Development Platform that can be integrated into systems, and Ready-to-Fab Solution for placement directly into MEMS-enabled products. They also offer process characterization and product engineering. Coventor follows a fabless business model and teams with Preferred Partners who offer proven MEMS manufacturing capability.

Ener1
Public
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
www.ener1.com
Ener1 develops and markets new technologies and products for energy sources, including high-energy batteries, fuel cells and solar cells. Ener1′s technologies offer clean, cost-efficient solutions to the energy needs of industry and society, both for today and tomorrow. Ener1′s key strengths are in its patent pending technologies and multi-disciplinary R&D team, which has developed many patents for Ener1. Some have been granted and several others are pending. Products are Battery Electrodes.

Espin Technologies
Private
Chattanooga, Tennessee
www.nanospin.com
Founded in 1999, the company develops polymeric nanofiber manufacturing technology applicable across the universe of emergent and traditional manufacturing sectors.

Luna nanoWorks
Private
Danville, Virginia
www.lunananoworks.com
Luna nanoWorks is focused on manufacturing revolutionary products based on carbonaceous nanomaterials. The company is the only producer in the world of the Trimetasphere molecule which consists of placing up to three novel metals (i.e. Scandium, Lutetium, Holmium, Gadolinium) inside a carbon cage. A Trimetasphere has up to 80 carbon atoms, which are stabilized by the three metal atoms with a nitrogen atom core. Luna’s intellectual property position includes exclusive licenses, patents and inventions relating to synthesis, functionalization, and applications of these new nanomaterials. The company will utilize nanotechnology to provide products for cancer therapy, faster electronics, better lubricants, stronger textiles, and chemical and biological warfare testing and disposal for homeland security.

Materials Modification
Private
Fairfax, Virginia
www.matmod.com
Materials Modification Inc (MMI) is engaged in the research and development of advanced materials utilizing novel processing techniques. The company provides solutions in materials science based on nanocrystalline metals and ceramics.

NanobacLabs Pharmaceuticals
Public
Tampa, Florida
www.nanobaclabs.com
Nanobac Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a life science company dedicated to the discovery and development of products and services to improve people’s health through the detection and treatment of Calcifying Nanoparticles, otherwise known as “nanobacteria”. The Company’s pioneering research is establishing the pathogenic role of nanobacteria in soft tissue calcification, particularly in coronary artery, prostate, and vascular disease.

NanoChemonics
Private
Pulaski, Virginia
www.nanochemonics.com
NanoChemonics, Inc produces
nanoparticle inorganic oxides. Product applications include: catalysts, separation/ collection, conductive pigments, UV attenuation, pharmaceutical, environmental remediation, coatings, energy, and cosmetics.

NanoLume
Private
Pittsboro, North Carolina
www.nanolume.net
Develops nanocrystalline III-V semiconductor powders.

Nanoprex
Private
Lake Worth, Florida
Currently performing research and development on proteonics (protein interaction) and development of antimicrobial products. Applications include agricultural markets and preventive medicine.

NanoSonic
Private
Christiansburg, Virginia
www.nanosonic.com
Products include Metal Rubber, NanoFilms Self-Assembled ThinFilms, NanoFerrite Powder and Solutions.

Nanotherapeutics
Private
Alachua, Florida
www.nanotherapeutics.com
Companies has made new discoveries in the area of nanotechnology and is applying them to the development of novel drug therapies. Nanotherapeutics has developed two proprietary drug delivery technologies, Nanodry and Nanocoat, which produce improved pharmaceuticals at high yield that are substantially more versatile and cost-effective than current technologies. Nanotherapeutic’s technologies focus on making injectable, nasal, and inhaled pharmaceutical products more effective and more patient friendly.

nanoTITAN
Private
Potomac Falls, Virginia
www.nanotitan.com
Company offers software, unique databases and analytical services targeted to scientists and engineers working in the emerging field of nanotechnology.

Nanoventions
Private
Roswell, Georgia
www.nanoventions.com
Nanoventions combines innovative optical and non-optical microstructure mastering techniques with economic manufacturing methods to produce high quality micro-optic solutions.

nGimat
Private
Chamblee, Georgia
www.ngimat.com
nGimat is a cost-effective manufacturer and innovator of engineered nanomaterials in the following areas: nanopowders, thin films and devices.

Photovoltaics
Private
Key Biscayne, Florida
www.photovoltaics.com
Company develops cadmium selenium/cadmium sulfite nano photovoltaic solar cells that can be applied to a metalized plastic in a novel fashion.

psiloQuest
Private
Orlando, Florida
www.psiloquest.com
psiloQuest is a CMP pad provider dealing in the $750MM market of chemicals and materials used in the manufacture of semiconductors, photonics and specialty microelectronics. Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) is an enabling technology for the manufacture of integrated circuits at or below circuit line-widths of 350 nanometers.

QuarTek International
Private
Greensboro, North Carolina
www.quartekcorp.com
QuarTek Corporation is conducting research and developing processes to produce nano-sized materials, devices, and sensors that exhibit physical properties and functions different from those found at larger scales.

Radiation Shield Technologies
Private
Miami, Florida
www.radshield.com
Producer of Demron – a lightweight, non-toxic and Lead-free radiation protection fabric.

Specs Scientific Instruments
Private
Sarasota, Florida
www.specs.com
Manufacturer and distributor of surface analysis components and systems for XPS, LT-STM, MBE, LEED, EELS, UPS, Auger, ESCA, SIMS, PEEM, E-beam Evaporators, Effusion Cells, Plasma Atom/Ion Sources.

The NanoSteel Company
Private
Maitland, Florida
www.nanosteelco.com
The NanoSteel Company (TNC) develops and markets Super Hard Steel (SHS) a patented material with a unique combination of performance characteristics suitable for solving wear, abrasion, erosion, corrosion and cavitation challenges.

Xintek
Private
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
www.xintek.com
Products include Single-wall carbon nanotubes, Carbon nanotube based field emission x-ray tubes, Carbon nanotube based microwave amplifiers, Carbon nanotube based gas discharge tubes, Carbon nanotube field emission cathodes.

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