Overview
The Polymer industry is Ohio's largest, at $49 billion. Ohio is also #1 in the nation in supplying automotive parts. Nanotechnology is an exciting new technology that promises to have a dramtic and significant impact on many parts and plymer-based products. New and exciting research is showing that the proper combinatinos of polymers, nanoparticles and/or biomolecules can offer tailored properties for advanced structural, photonic and biomedical products.
A newly formed research and commercialization partnership in polymer nanotechnology, the mulit-instituional, interdisciplinary Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND/ "compound") centered at The ohio State University in conjunction with the University of Akron and University of Dayton, puts ohio at the forefront of nanotechnology research and commercializatino opportunities. Other partners include tree additional Ohio universities, more than 50 large and small companies in Ohio, the attention to target markets that build on research strengths of the participating unversites and national labs, CMPND develops manufacturing protocols and nanostructures for near-term industrial polymeric nanocomposites, emerging polymer photonic components and devices, and more futuristic biomedical devices and systems with nanoscale functions. [ more ] [Open pdf. Brochure]
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