News

January 2012

  • nanoComposix receives a Phase I SBIR from the NSF to develop next generation SERS probes.

December 2011

  • nanoComposix receives a Phase I SBIR from the Navy to develop a healable carbon fiber composite reinforced with carbon nanotubes.  
  • nanoComposix receives a Phase I SBIR from the NCI to develop ultrabright fluorescent reporter probes.

OCTOBER 2011

  • nanoComposix receives a Phase II SBIR to develop a nanoparticle based pyrophoric IR decoy for the Navy.  

JULY 2011

  • nanoComposix receives funding from SERDP to develop new concepts for safer obscurant formulations. 

FEBRUARY 2011

December 2010

  • nanoComposix receives an Army Phase II STTR to develop bispectral obscurants.
  • nanoComposix receives an Air Force Phase II STTR to develop thermally remendable composites with a resistive heating network of carbon fibers.
  • Dr. Tom Darlington coauthors a publication on thermally remendable composite technology.  More information can be found here.
  • Dr. Steve Oldenburg presents Precisely Manufactured Nanoparticles for Environmental Safety and Health Analysis at the Materials Research Society Fall 2010 conference.
  • Dr. Dave Sebba presents Fabrication of Tunable Plasmonic Materials with Extremely High Optical Efficiencies at the Materials Research Society Fall 2010 conference.

October 2010

  • Dr. Dave Sebba and Dr. Steven Oldenburg coauthor a publication on plasmonics and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) with researchers at Duke University.  More information can be found here.

September 2010

  • nanoComposix receives a Navy SBIR to develop pyrophoric nanoparticles for use as IR decoys.

July 2010

  • nanoComposix receives a SAIC sub-contract to assist in the development of a Wound Stasis System for DARPA.

January 2010

  • nanoComposix receives a NSF Phase I SBIR to for continuous flow manufacturing of plasmonic nanoparticles.
  • nanoComposix receives a NCI Phase I SBIR to develop a novel instrument which integrates cell sorting and single particle mass spectrometry.
  • nanoComposix receives a NCI Phase I SBIR to develop hollow silica nanodelivery vehicles for cancer treatment.

April 2009

  • nanoComposix receives a NSF Phase II SBIR to develop gold nanoparticles as a matrix for MALDI-MS tissue imaging.

December 2008

  • nanoComposix receives an Air Force Phase I STTR to develop thermally remendable composites with a resistive heating network of carbon fibers.

July 2008

  • nanoComposix receives an Air Force Phase II SBIR to evaluate the safety of manufactured nanomaterials.

September 2007

  • nanoComposix receives an Army Phase II SBIR to develop new methods for packing high performance anisotropic IR obscurant powders.

April 2006

  • nanoComposix receives an AF Phase II SBIR to investigate the transport, compartmentalization and effects of nanoparticles in the environment. 

December 2005

  • nanoComposix receives a NASA Phase II SBIR to develop nanofluids as a component for high performance thermal management.