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  • September 2006 - Nanotech BC - British Columbia Nanotechnology Alliance's website up.

  • October 1, 2005 - Province Invests $7.4m In Centre For Research At SFU - The official 4D LABS website is here.

  • August 26, 2005 - Nanotech faces large funding hurdles - An article from Business Edge on nanotechnology in BC.

  • August 2005 - Extreme Nanotechnology Complementary Education course - August 21 to 28 at Simon Fraser University.

  • October 30, 2003 - BC's Role in Nano Scale Revolution to be Debated at Vancouver Conference

  • June 9, 2003 - Top U.S. venture capital firm makes major investment in D-Wave Systems Inc.


  •  This page is designed as a gateway and reference page for nanotechnology and MEMS in BC. If you have any comments/questions feel free to email me at


    Angstrom Power Inc. - www.angstrompower.com
    From website: "Angstrom Power Inc., is a Vancouver-based developer of micro-structured fuel cells targeting a variety of applications. Angstrom was formed in late 2001 to commercialize technology developed at the University of Victoria by Dr. Gerard McLean and is applying micro-fabrication techniques to create a fuel cell system using novel architecture and manufacturing techniques."
    Applied Microsystems Ltd. - www.appliedmicrosystems.com
    From website: "Applied Microsystems manufactures sensors and systems for in-situ, real-time detection and measurement in water. Located in Sidney , Canada the company holds an exclusive license to commercialize the Spill-Sentry TM, a technology originally designed by the SpaWar Systems Centre, a division of the United States Navy."
    Boreal Bioengineering - www.borealbioengineering.com
    Boreal develops products based on a novel electrophoretic technology.
    Cogent ChipWare Inc. - www.cogentchipware.com
    From website: "Cogent ChipWare Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused on the exploding market for voice coding technologies. Cogent builds highly efficient processing and memory elements for system-on-a-chip designs. Based on 15 years of intellectual property development at Simon Fraser University, Cogent's designs feature low area with exceptional power savings. These power and area savings allow Cogent to offer voice coding solutions which provide unprecedented channel processing capability on a single chip. "
    D-Wave Systems Inc. - www.dwavesys.com
    From website: "D-Wave Systems Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Vancouver, Canada. Our central mission is to commercialize superconducting quantum computational systems."
    MIV Therapeutics Inc. - www.mivtherapeutics.com
    From website: "MIV Therapeutics Inc. is an advanced stage, research and development company pursuing the commercialization of the next generation of fully biocompatible coatings for stents and other medical devices with the intent of providing healing solutions for cardiovascular disease and other conditions. In collaboration with the University of British Columbia (UBC), the Company has developed unique coating technologies that utilize Hydroxyapatite (HAp) for application on medical devices and drug delivery systems."
    Precision MicroDynamics, Inc. - www.pmdi.com
    High-Performance motion control solutions.
    Protiva Biotherapeutics - www.protivabio.com
    From website: "Protiva Biotherapeutics is a development stage biotechnology company, focused on pharmaceutical products to fight against cancer, metabolic and infectious disease. Protiva's technology, employing lipid nanoparticles to encapsulate and deliver nucleic acid based drugs, such as siRNA, allows for the development of molecular therapeutics that act selectively at sites of disease."
    QuestAir Technologies Inc. - www.questairinc.com
    From website: "QuestAir specializes in developing and commercializing gas separation and gas purification products for use in existing and emerging markets. Our patented fast-cycle pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology allows customers to increase the efficiency of their products, or to achieve substantial reductions in the size and cost of their gas purification processes."
    SmarTire Systems Inc. - www.smartire.com
    From website: "SmarTire Systems Inc. develops and markets technically advanced tire monitoring systems for the automotive and transportation industries."
    Tekion Solutions Inc. (Renew Power, Inc.) - www.tekion.com
    Tekion Solutions Inc. is developing formic acid micro-fuel cells.
    Zymeworks Inc. - www.zymeworks.com
    From website: "Zymeworks is a privately held biosciences company developing proprietary biocatalyst (enzyme) engineering technologies to create novel process development solutions for industrial, specialty chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The cornerstone of Zymeworks' science & technology is its cutting-edge molecular modeling platform that enables the company to accurately simulate the phyiscal and chemical properties of enzymes."

  • SFU 4D LABS - www.4dlabs.ca
  • SFU Nano-Imaging Facility - nanoimaging.sfu.ca
  • Institute of Micromachine and Microfabrication Research - www.sfu.ca/immr
  • Pacific Centre for Advanced Materials and Microstructures (PCAMM) - www.sfu.ca/physics/PCAMM/
  • Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) - www.ampel.ubc.ca

  • Pangaea Ventures Ltd. - www.pangaeaventures.com

  • Nanotech.Biz
  • Nanotechnology.com

    Local:

  • Nanotech BC
  • BC Innovation Council

    National:

  • National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)
  • Canadian NanoBusiness Alliance

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