Information Technology

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Information Technology
Security Measure
Toward a Synthetic All-Optical Computer
MOLECULAR-SCALE IMPRINTING
Polanyi, UT
Ozin, John, UT
3D Silicon Photonic Crystal
Ruda, Winnik, UT
Monochromatic biometric features recorded on the
same location of the polymer material
Nanophotonic Written Data
50 nm at1 Tbit/in2
Walker, UT
Thermal Profile
Kumacheva, UT
HAMR Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
Nanowires for RFID tags
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Industrial and Environmental Coatings
Designed Grain Boundaries
Low VOC coatings requiring 60-80nm Particles
Winnik, UT multiple industrial partners
Erb, UT

• Spin-off

• Chrome Replacement Technology
• Wear Resistant Coatings for brakes
• Nano coated carbon-fibre parts for durable racing
  parts
• Lightweight hybrid structures for after-market
  parts

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Energy Nanotechnologies

• Spray-on Photovoltaics

New Shapes for Colour Control
Scholes, UT
Aitchison, Sipe, UT
Harvesting More Light
Ring resonators
Sargent, Scholes UT
Spin-off from the Goh Group
Ozin, Kherani, John, UT
Photonic crystals concentrate light at surface
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Energy Highlight Hybrid Nano-Organic EL (NOREL)
IP Arsenal
Flat-panel Display Norel Optronics Inc. (1st
spin-off) seeded by Sumitomo Corp. 20 companies
are working on NOREL.
Energy efficient Solid-State Light
Source Development in progress.
Solar cells Planning in progress.
The Lu Group (UT) technology platform comprises 7
pending-patents
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Nanomedicine
Drug Discovery Nanoarrays

• Cancer Detection and Therapy using
• Functionalized Nanoparticles

Chan, Shoichet, UT Keating, PMH
Goh, UT
Spin-off Axela Biosensors
Imaging
Polymersomes for drug delivery
Allen, UT
Chan, UT, Wilson, OCI
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Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
New Ideas Nanostructured Matrices for
Tissue Engineering

• Commercial Ventures Spin-offs from the Shoichet
  lab, UT

Nanostructured Polymer scaffold for osteogenesis
BoneTec Corporation Shoichet, Davies, UT
Bio-Polymer drug delivery systems
Shoichet, UT