Commercialisation opportunity
Researchers at Oxford University, UK, have developed a technology for producing nanostructured arrays, and are seeking partnerships for to develop the technology commercially.
The technology is quick, simple and reliable, says the university’s tech transfer company, Isis Innovation, since it doesn’t require the use of masks, templates or serial writing that are known to contribute to inaccuracy and poor aspect ratios in conventional nanostructures.
The technology, say Isis Innovation, allows cost-effective production of nanostructure arrays with precisely positioned features such as nanoneedles, nanodots, nanorings and nanorods without the use of wet chemical etchants.
The properties of one-dimensional nanostructure arrays result from their large surfaces and possible quantum confinement effects, so method of producing them effectively promises to enhance the development of optical, electronic and magnetism-based technologies, for example magnetic force microscopy and photoluminescence. Isis Innovation also envisages that the Oxford nanostructures will enhance data storage by optimising data records and magnetic random access memories.
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