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Examples of Companies commercialising nanomaterials for bio- and medical applications. |
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Major area of activity |
Technology |
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Advectus Life Sciences Inc. |
Drug delivery |
Polymeric nanoparticles engineered to carry anti-tumour drug across the blood-brain barrier |
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Alnis Biosciences, Inc. |
Bio-pharmaceutical |
Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery |
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Argonide |
Membrane filtration |
Nanoporous ceramic materials for endotoxin filtration, orthopaedic and dental implants, DNA and protein separation |
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BASF |
Toothpaste |
Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles seems to improve dental surface |
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Biophan Technologies, Inc. |
MRI shielding |
Nanomagnetic/carbon composite materials to shield medical devices from RF fields |
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Capsulution NanoScience AG |
Pharmaceutical coatings to improve solubility of drugs |
Layer-by-layer poly-electrolyte coatings, 8–50 nm |
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Dynal Biotech |
Magnetic beads |
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Eiffel Technologies |
Drug delivery |
Reducing size of the drug particles to 50–100 nm |
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EnviroSystems, Inc. |
Surface desinfectsant |
Nanoemulsions |
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Evident Technologies |
Luminescent biomarkers |
Semiconductor quantum dots with amine or carboxyl groups on the surface, emission from 350 to 2500 nm |
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Immunicon |
Tarcking and separation of different cell types |
magnetic core surrounded by a polymeric layer coated with antibodies for capturing cells |
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KES Science and Technology, Inc. |
AiroCide filters |
Nano-TiO2 to destroy airborne pathogens |
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NanoBio Cortporation |
Pharmaceutical |
Antimicrobal nano-emulsions |
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NanoCarrier Co., Ltd |
Drug delivery |
Micellar nanoparticles for encapsulation of drugs, proteins, DNA |
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NanoPharm AG |
Drug delivery |
Polybutilcyanoacrylate nanoparticles are coated with drugs and then with surfactant, can go across the blood-brain barrier |
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Nanoplex Technologies, Inc |
Nanobarcodes for bioanalysis |
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Nanoprobes, Inc. |
Gold nanoparticles for biological markers |
Gold nanoparticles bio-conjugates for TEM and/or fluorescent microscopy |
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Nanoshpere, Inc. |
Gold biomarkers |
DNA barcode attached to each nanoprobe for identification purposes, PCR is used to amplify the signal; also catalytic silver deposition to amplify the signal using surface plasmon resonance |
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NanoMed Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
Drug delivery |
Nanoparticles for drug delivery |
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Oxonica Ltd |
Sunscreens |
Doped transparent nanoparticles to effectively absorb harmful UV and convert it into heat |
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PSiVida Ltd |
Tissue engineering, implants, drugs and gene delivery, bio-filtration |
Exploiting material properties of nanostructured porous silicone |
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Smith & Nephew |
Acticoat bandages |
Nanocrystal silver is highly toxic to pathogenes |
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QuantumDot Corporation |
Luminescent biomarkers |
Bioconjugated semiconductor quantum dots |
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Salata Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2004 2:3 doi:10.1186/1477-3155-2-3 |
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