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Hub Overview
Suzhou is one of China's most visible nanotechnology commercialization centers, built deliberately as an industry cluster rather than a university town. Its research anchor is the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, a Chinese Academy of Sciences institute founded in 2006, which works on carbon nanotubes, printed electronics, nanodevices, and nano-bio interfaces and runs large shared research platforms. Around it, the Nanopolis development and the China Nanotech Innovation Park provide dedicated space for company growth, incubation, and manufacturing scale-up.
Everything is concentrated in Suzhou Industrial Park, on the eastern side of the city, where the academy institute and the nanotechnology park sit close together in a planned innovation district. The hub is strongly industry-facing, designed to move nanomaterials and nano-enabled products from research toward production, and it has drawn a large base of specialist companies. Suzhou complements China's university-centered hubs by emphasizing commercialization, printed electronics, and micro- and nano-manufacturing at scale. At many Chinese institutions, research groups appear mainly as individual faculty profiles rather than as standalone group pages, and much of the detail sits on Chinese-language pages, so the labs listed here understate the region's true research volume.
Research Map
Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Suzhou area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
Research lab
Company
Key Institutions
Soochow University
4 nano groups
Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics
1 nano group
Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO)
1 nano group
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Suzhou area.
University
Suzhou
A national collaborative innovation center for nanoscience and nanotechnology led by Soochow University, spanning nanofabrication, nanoenergy, optoelectronics, nanomedicine and green environment.
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University
Suzhou
The College of Nano Science and Technology at Soochow University, jointly established with Suzhou Industrial Park and the University of Waterloo, providing nanomaterials and nanotechnology education and research.
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University
Suzhou
An interdisciplinary nanoscience research institute of Soochow University focused on functional nano and soft materials for optoelectronics, energy, green environment and nanomedicine.
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University
Suzhou
A joint research institute for nanotechnology between Soochow University and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, collaborating on nano research, education and commercialization.
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Lab
Suzhou
A national research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducting nanotechnology and nano-bionics research across information, energy, life sciences and the environment, with open micro and nanofabrication, characterization and nano-bio-chem facilities.
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Lab
Suzhou
The Printable Electronics Research Center at SINANO, the first research center in China dedicated to printed and flexible electronics research and development.
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University
Suzhou
The Advanced Materials Research Center at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, developing advanced materials including nanomaterials, semiconductors and biomaterials for energy, environmental and electronic applications.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Suzhou area.
Products
Suzhou
A pure-play foundry producing high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxial wafers, including GaN-on-Si, GaN-on-SiC and GaN-on-sapphire, for power electronics and micro-LED applications.
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Materials
Suzhou
A manufacturer of nano and ultrafine metal powders, including nano copper and nickel particles, nickel-coated copper powder and copper oxide nanomaterials.
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Products
Suzhou
A manufacturer of scanning probe and atomic force microscopes (the Nanofirst series) and nano-detection, nanofabrication and nanometrology solutions, including nanoscience teaching kits.
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Products
Suzhou
A producer of high-quality gallium nitride (GaN) single-crystal substrates, GaN and AlN templates and GaN powder for high-power LED, laser diode and power-electronic devices.
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Materials
Suzhou
The company's core technology is quantum dots. They focus on new structure design, controllable large-scale preparation and application of Qdots.
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Services
Suzhou
A third-party commercial laboratory providing semiconductor failure analysis, material analysis, reliability analysis and related testing services to the integrated circuit industry chain.
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Materials
Suzhou City
The company specializes in 2D nanomaterials technology companies with a focus on MXenes and MAX phase materials, MOFs and COFs materials, and black phosphorus.
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