[nanoPost] Lab on a chip

Company USA

The company's semiconductor based array technology enables the preparation of materials with nano-scale control.

The company’s microarray technology allows for the parallel synthesis of large numbers of nano-structured materials. These materials can then be tested using the same chip-based technology. These activities are focused on materials that could be useful for applications in the fields of electronics, energy conversion, energy storage, catalysis, and others.

The conventional approach to materials discovery involves synthesis of a material, followed by testing, successive cycles of synthesis, and more testing. This process is very labor intensive, costly, and inefficient. The company's approach enables the synthesis of hundreds to thousands of materials in parallel followed by testing of all of those materials at once, thus allowing for greater efficiency.

Also, since their technology utilizes our microarray platform, which consists of arrays of microelectrodes, all syntheses are performed electrochemically. Therefore, controlling currents, voltages, and the ways in which the materials are applied to each electrode can influence the structure and morphology of the synthesized materials. This exquisite control should enable the fabrication of materials with unique properties.