Top Nanotechnology Service Providers in Singapore

What is Nanotechnology?

Nanotechnology is the control of materials on an atomic or molecular scale specifically to construct microscopic devices (eg. robots).

Placing atoms as though they were bricks, nanotechnology will give us control over the structure of matter, allowing us to build any substance or structure permitted by the laws of nature.

— Science News

Once the province of science fiction, nanotechnology, the science of assembling materials one atom at a time, is now the rage among Silicon Valley investors.
— Karen Breslau

Nanotechnology Applications have emerged in:

Medicine

Researchers are producing customized nanoparticles the size of molecules that can deliver drugs directly to diseased cells in human bodies.

When it is perfected, this method should vastly reduce the damage that treatment such as chemotherapy does to a patient’s healthy cells.

Electronics

Nanotechnology provides access to possible methods that are undertaken in order to expand the capabilities of electronics devices while reducing their weight and power consumption.

Food

Nanotechnology is having an effect on some aspects of food science, from how food is grown to how it is packaged.

Companies are developing nanomaterials that will make a difference not only in the flavor of food, but also in food safety, and the health nutrition that food provides.

Fuel Cells

Nanotechnology is being used to lower the cost of catalysts used in fuel cells to produce hydrogen ions from fuel such as methanol and to heighten the efficiency of membranes used in fuel cells to split hydrogen ions from other gases such as oxygen.

Solar Cells

Companies have produced nanotech solar cells that can be replicated at significantly lower cost than normal solar cells.

Batteries

Companies are presently producing batteries using nanomaterials.

One such battery will be as functional as new after resting on the shelf for decades.

Another battery can be recharged much faster than normal batteries.

Space

Nanotechnology may contain possible means to rendering space flight accessible in practice.

Advancements in nanomaterials make lightweight spacecraft and a cable for the space elevator feasible.

By significantly reducing the amount of rocket fuel required, these advances could reduce the cost of reaching orbit and traveling in space.

Fuels

Nanotechnology can resolve the shortage of fossil fuels such as diesel and gasoline by making the manufacture of fuels from low grade raw materials economical, enlarging the mileage of engines, and making the production of fuels from normal raw materials more efficient.

Improved Air Quality

Nanotechnology can improve the performance of catalysts used to transform vapors escaping from cars or industrial plants into harmless gasses.

That is because catalysts produced from nanoparticles have a greater surface area to interact with the reacting chemicals than catalysts made from larger particles.

The wider surface area allows more chemicals to interact with the catalyst simultaneously, which makes the catalyst more efficient.

Enhanced Water Quality

Nanotechnology is being used to produce solutions to three vastly different problems in water quality.

One challenge is the removal of industrial wastes, such as a cleaning solvent called TCE, from groundwater.

Nanoparticles can be used to purify the contaminating chemical through a chemical reaction to make it non-toxic.

Studies have shown that this method can be used effectively to reach contaminates dispersed in underground ponds and at much lower cost than methods which require pumping the water out of the ground for detoxification.

Chemical Sensors

Nanotechnology can enable sensors to detect incredibly small amounts of chemical vapors.

Multiple types of detecting elements, such as carbon nanotubes, zinc oxide nanowires or palladium nanoparticles can be used in nanotechnology-based sensors.

Because of the small size of nanotubes, nanowires, or nanoparticles, a few gas molecules are sufficient to change the electrical properties of the sensing elements.

This allows the detection of an incredibly small concentration of chemical vapors.

Sporting Goods

If you are a tennis or golf fan, you would be pleased to learn that even sporting goods has expanded into the Nano realm.

Current nanotechnology applications in the sports arena include increasing the strength of tennis racquets, resolving any imperfections in club shaft materials, and lowering the rate at which air leaks from tennis balls.

Fabric

Making composite fabric with Nano-sized particles or fibers allows enhancement of fabric properties without a substantial increase in weight, thickness, or hardening as might have been the case with older techniques used.

Nanotechnology in Singapore

From a “rubber stamp” that produces 11 million different nanoparticles at a time, to a supercomputer that runs round the clock churning out potential new nanomaterials, Singapore’s two main research universities, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS), are pushing back the frontiers of materials science.

With millions of dollars being invested, new materials that seem to be from science fiction movies are being developed.

Such materials, which are made of tiny components, could have uses for everything – from medicine that is absorbed more effectively by the body to cling film that changes color when the food goes bad.

Instead of applying reactants to test materials like NTU does, NUS use supercomputer simulations to accurately predict the properties of materials, and then selects those with the desired properties for laboratory synthesis and testing.

Samsung and Lockheed Martin are interested in his center’s work, said Prof Castro Neto.

Three multinational companies have also expressed interest in the NTU-Northwestern University initiative.

One pharmaceutical company even committed a “seven-figure” sum, said Prof Mirkin.

Dr Liu said: “Commercializing the research – the scaling up – takes money. This is the part that will change lives of people.”

Sample costs of Nanotechnology in Singapore

Nanofilm Technologies International:

The provider of nanotechnology solutions for smartphones and other electronics opened at $2.77 from its initial public offering price of $2.59 a share and rose close to 13 per cent in early Singapore trading.

Dr Shi’s fortune, made up of 53 per cent Nanofilm stake he holds with his wife, has surged to almost US$880 million (S$1.2 billion).
The IPO raised more than $470 million, taking the company’s market value to $1.9 billion and marking the largest primary listing on the Singapore exchange since 2017.

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