Nanotechnology in Texas - companies, research, and degree programs

DexMat produces Galvorn, an advanced carbon nanotube material engineered for high conductivity, strength, light weight and flexibility, with applications in aerospace and defense, wire and cable, automotive and next-generation energy transmission infrastructure.

The company produces graphene.

GrapheneTX supplies high-performance functionalized graphene and carbon nanotube products for polymer composites, engineering plastics, rubbers, paints and applications including electronics, aerospace, automotive, energy storage, water filtration and other advanced-material markets.

MST-Nano is a nanomaterials research and production company supplying graphene, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, nanodiamonds, colloidal metal nanoparticles and related nanomaterials for research and industrial applications.

Manufacturer and supplier of nanoscale metal oxides, nitrides, carbides, diamond, carbon nanotubes for research and industry.

Nissan Chemical America Corporation produces colloidal silicas and metal oxide solutions for scratch-resistant coatings for eyeglass lenses, automobile clear coats, and many other plastic parts needing protective coatings. The company also produce high-purity colloidal silicas used in the production of polishing slurries for the semiconductor industry. Their colloidal silicas are also used in the manufacture of synthetic fibers and textiles.

SES Research is the first manufacturer to provide commercial quantities of Carbon Nano materials. SES Research has been providing high quality Carbon Nano materials to the research community for over two decades. With orders as small as 100 milligrams and as large as 5 kilograms, SES Research is the largest supplier of Carbon Nano materials, often supplying other fullerene suppliers with their raw materials.

SkySpring Nanomaterials offers nano-sized powders, nanopowder dispersions, micro-sized powders and bulk materials in small quantity for researchers and in bulk order for industry groups.

The company provides metal nanopowders, oxides and sulfides nanopowders, and nanotubes to industry and researchers worldwide.

US Research Nanomaterials manufactures and supplies carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, graphene, metal nanoparticles, alloy nanoparticles, oxide nanoparticles, rare earth oxide nanoparticles, compound nanoparticles, nanopowders and nanoparticle dispersions for research and industrial applications.

The company is focused on the use of fullerene carbon nanotubes for novel therapeutic applications specifically in the area of cancer treatment. The company's extensive carbon nanotube-related, worldwide intellectual property portfolio includes discoveries by the late Nobel Prize winner Dr Rick Smalley. The use of fullerene carbon nanotubes has the goal of solving two important problems for many cancer therapeutics, that of delivering large active agents into the desired location and of protecting normal tissue from the active agent during delivery.

The MicroTransponder, Inc. technology portfolio consists of a wireless micro-system that can interface with peripheral nerves and a host of biochemical micro/nano- sensors.

NanoMedical Systems (NMS) is a startup company, which will commercialize the patented research of Dr. Mauro Ferrari at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, a sponsored research site and a source of licensed IP for NMS. The company's Personalized Molecular Drug-delivery System (PMDS) is a small drug delivery device that is implanted subcutaneously (just under the skin) for slow and consistent release of a therapeutic agent over many weeks or months. A nanochannel delivery system (nDS) embodied on a silicon chip regulates the flow of therapeutic molecules.

Plus Therapeutics is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing targeted radiotherapeutics and nanoliposome-based therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers, including central nervous system cancers and leptomeningeal metastases.

Savara is is an inhalation drug development company developing next generation respiratory therapeutics utilizing its proprietary NanoCluster dry-powder formulation technology.

Developed and manufactures a novel, biomaterial which utilizes hydrogel nanoparticles which aggregate to form a material of varying strength and elasticity which has extensive medical application including wound management and burn care, tissue regeneration and drug delivery devices.

Advanced Material Development Inc. is a materials technology company developing nano-material solutions for industrial, defense and security applications, including intelligent materials, EMI shielding, RFID, diagnostics and related advanced-material platforms.

A scientific instrument company formed to supply the carbon nanotube community with unique, specialized optical instrumentation for sample characterization.

Authentication and anti-counterfeit technology.

Black Diamond Structures is a nanotechnology company developing battery materials based on proprietary MOLECULAR REBAR technology, using modified carbon nanotubes to enhance battery performance.

C-Bond Systems is a Houston-based nanotechnology company that develops and manufactures patented C-Bond technology for strengthening, protecting and improving the performance of glass and window film products.

Curran Biotech is a materials manufacturing company that provides nanocoatings and surface-treatment technologies, including Capture Coating products for filters and other applications in biochemical, chemical, energy, construction, fabric and filtration markets.

Electroninks develops high-performance, cost-effective metal complex conductive inks for additive electronics, printed microelectronics, semiconductor packaging and related advanced manufacturing applications.

The company has created precise molecule traps, opening up a new avenue of MOF design. Using a trapping method reminiscent of the biomimetic recognition employed by receptors in nature, single molecule traps were structured to strengthen the interaction with confining material without the permanence of a chemical reaction. framergy provides Metal Organic Frameworks and single molecule traps as a reliable, high-volume, high-quality, low cost product for clean energy and other applications.

The company was established to develop and commercialize a breakthrough form of modified carbon nanotubes (CNTs), called MOLECULAR REBAR�. The CNTs are disentangled from the usual clumping and individualized through a patent-protected process which enables significantly enhanced performance for a myriad of high-value materials.

The company manufactures a complete line of sputtering systems with reactive sputtering, co-sputtering and combinatorial sputtering, PECVD tools, RIE and Deep RIE systems along with thermal and e-beam evaporators, and single wafer megasonic cleaners.

Nanoscale Labs is developing affordable, high-throughput nanomanufacturing and nanopatterning systems based on self-assembly processes to create nanostructures and nanopatterns for applications including solar, heat exchangers and biomimetic materials.

Develops a full portfolio of nanoscale metal inks for printable electronics applications.

Syzygy Plasmonics builds light-powered reactor systems and photocatalytic technology to produce sustainable aviation fuel, methanol, syngas and hydrogen with lower emissions. Its all-electric GHG e-Reforming reactor converts methane and carbon dioxide feedstocks into syngas for clean fuels.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. is a research and development company with the goal to develop a portfolio of recurring revenue streams by licensing their intellectual property to others.

Cerium Labs is an analytical laboratory and materials R&D company offering materials characterization and research services, with expertise ranging from nanomaterials to particle physics.

A technology development company that develops scientific and engineering concepts and takes the resulting innovations to the marketplace. Innovation areas include nanomaterials.

Fluid microdispensing for micro and nanotechnology applications.

A technology R&D and commercialization company. Capabilities include nanostructured materials development.