Table 1.
Examples of Companies commercialising nanomaterials for bio- and medical applications.
Company | Major area of activity | Technology |
Advectus Life Sciences Inc. | Drug delivery | Polymeric nanoparticles engineered to carry anti-tumour drug across the blood-brain barrier |
Alnis Biosciences, Inc. | Bio-pharmaceutical | Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery |
Argonide | Membrane filtration | Nanoporous ceramic materials for endotoxin filtration, orthopaedic and dental implants, DNA and protein separation |
BASF | Toothpaste | Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles seems to improve dental surface |
Biophan Technologies, Inc. | MRI shielding | Nanomagnetic/carbon composite materials to shield medical devices from RF fields |
Capsulution NanoScience AG | Pharmaceutical coatings to improve solubility of drugs | Layer-by-layer poly-electrolyte coatings, 8–50 nm |
Dynal Biotech | Magnetic beads | |
Eiffel Technologies | Drug delivery | Reducing size of the drug particles to 50–100 nm |
EnviroSystems, Inc. | Surface desinfectsant | Nanoemulsions |
Evident Technologies | Luminescent biomarkers | Semiconductor quantum dots with amine or carboxyl groups on the surface, emission from 350 to 2500 nm |
Immunicon | Tarcking and separation of different cell types | magnetic core surrounded by a polymeric layer coated with antibodies for capturing cells |
KES Science and Technology, Inc. | AiroCide filters | Nano-TiO2 to destroy airborne pathogens |
NanoBio Cortporation | Pharmaceutical | Antimicrobal nano-emulsions |
NanoCarrier Co., Ltd | Drug delivery | Micellar nanoparticles for encapsulation of drugs, proteins, DNA |
NanoPharm AG | Drug delivery | Polybutilcyanoacrylate nanoparticles are coated with drugs and then with surfactant, can go across the blood-brain barrier |
Nanoplex Technologies, Inc | Nanobarcodes for bioanalysis | |
Nanoprobes, Inc. | Gold nanoparticles for biological markers | Gold nanoparticles bio-conjugates for TEM and/or fluorescent microscopy |
Nanoshpere, Inc. | Gold biomarkers | DNA barcode attached to each nanoprobe for identification purposes, PCR is used to amplify the signal; also catalytic silver deposition to amplify the signal using surface plasmon resonance |
NanoMed Pharmaceutical, Inc. | Drug delivery | Nanoparticles for drug delivery |
Oxonica Ltd | Sunscreens | Doped transparent nanoparticles to effectively absorb harmful UV and convert it into heat |
PSiVida Ltd | Tissue engineering, implants, drugs and gene delivery, bio-filtration | Exploiting material properties of nanostructured porous silicone |
Smith & Nephew | Acticoat bandages | Nanocrystal silver is highly toxic to pathogenes |
QuantumDot Corporation | Luminescent biomarkers | Bioconjugated semiconductor quantum dots |