NanoInk
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NanoInk, Inc. is an emerging growth nanotechnology
company headquartered in Skokie
, Illinois, with a MEMS
fabrication facility in Campbell
, California.
A spin-off of Northwestern University
and founded by Northwestern professor Chad Mirkin
, NanoInk specializes in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for the life science and semiconductor industries. Dip Pen Nanolithography
(DPN) is a patented and proprietary nanofabrication technology marketed as an anti-counterfeiting aid for pharmaceutical products.
Other key applications include nanoscale additive repair, and nanoscale rapid prototyping. Located in the Illinois Science + Technology Park, north of Chicago
, NanoInk currently has over 100 patent
s and applications filed worldwide and has licensing agreements with Northwestern University
, Stanford University
, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Georgia Institute of Technology
.
Within seven months of its formation, the firm released its first product, the DPN-System-1, which turns any atomic force microscope into a DPN machine.
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
company headquartered in Skokie
Skokie, Illinois
Skokie is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Its name comes from a Native American word for "fire". A Chicago suburb, for many years Skokie promoted itself as "The World's Largest Village". Its population, per the 2000 census, was 63,348...
, Illinois, with a MEMS
Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectromechanical systems is the technology of very small mechanical devices driven by electricity; it merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology...
fabrication facility in Campbell
Campbell, California
Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, a suburb of San Jose, and part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Campbell's population is 39,349...
, California.
A spin-off of Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
and founded by Northwestern professor Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin
Chad A. Mirkin is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at...
, NanoInk specializes in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for the life science and semiconductor industries. Dip Pen Nanolithography
Dip Pen Nanolithography
Dip Pen Nanolithography began as a scanning probe lithography technique where an atomic force microscope tip was used to transfer alkane thiolates to a gold surface. This technique allows surface patterning on scales of under 100 nanometers...
(DPN) is a patented and proprietary nanofabrication technology marketed as an anti-counterfeiting aid for pharmaceutical products.
Other key applications include nanoscale additive repair, and nanoscale rapid prototyping. Located in the Illinois Science + Technology Park, north of Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, NanoInk currently has over 100 patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
s and applications filed worldwide and has licensing agreements with Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...
.
Within seven months of its formation, the firm released its first product, the DPN-System-1, which turns any atomic force microscope into a DPN machine.