A Milwaukee start-up founded by an engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has completed a licensing agreement with the UWM Research Foundation for IP the company will use to develop nanoscale products and devices. NanoAffix Science LLC, founded by Junhong Chen, PhD, UWM associate professor of mechanical engineering, aims to commercialize Chen’s technologies, which include techniques to create custom nanoparticles and to deposit them onto carbon nanotubes. “We have found new ways of combining nanocomponents to produce valuable technologies which are superior to existing approaches,” Chen says. His methods of combining structures are low-cost but yield high-performance materials with potential uses in medical diagnostics, green energy technology, and sensors. The company plans to bring practical nanosensor products to market and to pursue other manufacturing technology applications, according to Ed Corrigan, NanoAffix director.
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