Nanogram Profile
December 11th, 2008, Posted in Nanogram by Yean ChertNANOGRAM
Introduction
Nanogram Corporation is a company which specializes in production of nanomaterials. Nanomaterials refer to materials which are in the range of 1-100nm in size. At this quantum level, nanomaterials behave very differently from macro scale; for instance, zinc oxide obtains strong oxidative capability which is able to kill bacteria at this scale.
Brief History
Nanogram Corporation was founded on October 1996. In November 2002, the corporation was split into three companies: Nanogram Device, NeoPhotonics, and Nanogram.
Nanogram Device focuses on production and research of high performance batteries for implantable medical devices. In March 2004, Greatbatch acquired the company at $45 million.
Neophotonics specializes in developing planar optical devices for communication applications. Last year, the company generates $80million revenue.
The third company, Nanogram, holds all intellectual properties and is responsible for developing, commercialization, and licensing of intellectual properties that have been developed by the corporation.
Nanogram
The core technologies that Nanogram has developed are Nano Particle Manufacturing (NPM) and Laser Reactive Deposition (LRD). Both are using Laser Pyrolysis to create nanoparticles. For LRD, the production of nanoparticles is coupled to the deposition of the particles on a particular surface. Both technologies are not limited to a particular type of nanomaterials and can be used generally to produce a wide range of materials.
By tweaking on the core technologies that have been developed, Nanogram is able to offer customized nanotechnology solutions to its partners and clients. In addition, Nanogram can assist in building and installation of nanomaterial production equipments in its partners’ sites as well as technical support.
