Voxtel,
Inc. plans to announce its entry into the business of
manufacturing "green" semiconductor and metal-oxide nanocrystals for a
wide variety customer applications, including: photovoltaic solar
cells, electro-luminescent lighting, anti-counterfeiting taggants, and
security inks. Voxtel’s focus is on the synthesis and
scaling-to-manufacture of “green”,
environmentally-friendly semiconductors and semiconductor core-shell
nanocrystals.
George Williams, Voxtel’s CEO, states,
“The benefits of Voxtel’s new business entry are
significant. There has been tremendous research in the area of
nanocrystal quantum dots, a majority of which has contained toxic
elements such as lead and cadmium.”
Williams expressed interest in extending the benefit of the
green technology on a global scale, stating, “One of our
corporate goals is to allow economical development through efficient
solar cell distribution to the billions of people living in the most
remote regions of the world, who are off of the power grid, giving them
the power necessary to thrive. Such a goal cannot be realized without
the refinement of environmentally friendly materials.”
Voxtel currently offers approximately twenty nanoparticles of
various sizes. Voxtel’s primary expertise lies not only in
the ability to synthesize the nanoparticles themselves, but also, more
importantly, to customize the nanoparticle by functionalizing the
material through special polymeric coverings that allow them unique
properties beyond those of the nanoparticles themselves.
Posted 7th March 2008
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