Jul 31 2010
SolMateS, a spinoff company of the MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology of the UT, gets a STW Valorisation Grant of 200,000 euros from the national program NanoNed for nanotechnology. This money helps the company's innovative technology for making thin films, further market development.
SolMateS, founded in 2007, has succeeded in developing a new technology for thin layers of material to put on a chip surface. The special feature of these layers is that they can move. With conventional chip technology is moving at a complex chip. This while a wide range of applications in this situation: for example, miniature pumps and valves in a lab-on-a-chip for medical applications, or the latest generation print heads and filters. The entrepreneurs of SolMateS developed an innovative process to make the layers of PZT material, the so-called piezoelectric properties: under the influence of an electric current moves.
First and second phase
The 'second phase' of the Valorisation Grant STW proposes SolMateS capable this technology closer to markets. The first phase consists of a feasibility study, the second is for the further development towards a commercial product. In this case, the Grant financed entirely from its NanoNed, the national program on nanotechnology.
SolMateS stands for Solutions in Material Science and was founded by Dr Matthijn Dekkers, Ir Arjen Janssens and Dr MBA Joska Pants Size. It is a company that is growing rapidly, and now employs twelve people. SolMateS is linked to the research of Prof. Dave Blank and Guus Rijnders Professor in the field of inorganic materials. The company also participates in the program VentureLab Twente University of Twente, Saxion and that high-tech high-growth business development incentive.
Source: http://www.mesaplus.utwente.nl/