Cima NanoTech
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Cima NanoTech, Inc.http://www.cimananotech.com is a company commercializing nanomaterial for electronics applications. Its technologies and products include silver nanoparticles, conductive inks, and its SANTE line of transparent conductive coatings.
The company’s SANTE products harness self-assembly to allow the coating of silver nanoparticles emulsions on transparent substrates to form metallic meshes upon drying. The resultant transparent conductive films have performance and cost benefits over other technologies, from indium tin oxide
(ITO), to conductive polymers and lithographically patterned meshes. The roll-to-roll wet, additive process gives low resistance, high transparency, and high flexibility/durability with roll-to-roll compatible wet processes. Typical applications for such coatings include photovoltaics
, touch screens, electromagnetic interference
filters, and electroluminescent devices.
Cima NanoTech has headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, staff in Singapore, and a wholly owned subsidiary in Israel. The company also has a joint venture, TodaCima, with Toda Kogyo of Japan. The company was named a 2008 Technology Pioneer Award winner by the World Economic Forum
, and was recognized as a top 10 Cleantech / Greentech
company.
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The company’s SANTE products harness self-assembly to allow the coating of silver nanoparticles emulsions on transparent substrates to form metallic meshes upon drying. The resultant transparent conductive films have performance and cost benefits over other technologies, from indium tin oxide
Indium tin oxide
Indium tin oxide is a solid solution of indium oxide and tin oxide , typically 90% In2O3, 10% SnO2 by weight. It is transparent and colorless in thin layers while in bulk form it is yellowish to grey...
(ITO), to conductive polymers and lithographically patterned meshes. The roll-to-roll wet, additive process gives low resistance, high transparency, and high flexibility/durability with roll-to-roll compatible wet processes. Typical applications for such coatings include photovoltaics
Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaic power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material...
, touch screens, electromagnetic interference
Electromagnetic interference
Electromagnetic interference is disturbance that affects an electrical circuit due to either electromagnetic induction or electromagnetic radiation emitted from an external source. The disturbance may interrupt, obstruct, or otherwise degrade or limit the effective performance of the circuit...
filters, and electroluminescent devices.
Cima NanoTech has headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, staff in Singapore, and a wholly owned subsidiary in Israel. The company also has a joint venture, TodaCima, with Toda Kogyo of Japan. The company was named a 2008 Technology Pioneer Award winner by the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
, and was recognized as a top 10 Cleantech / Greentech
Greentech
Greentech could refer to:* Cleantech* Green technology, also called environmental technology* GreenTech ITM, a Roswell, Georgia based company that creates modular turf systems...
company.
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