Mar 7 2008
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.