Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., a nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced that it had formed a wholly owned subsidiary called BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc., and that BlackBox has entered into a worldwide multi-year exclusive license with the University of Chicago, licensing work based on Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dmitri Talapin’s “electronic glue” chemistry. The license covers all applications except for thermoelectric applications.
“We are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with the University of Chicago to license intellectual property that we believe has the potential to radically change the economics in a number of burgeoning large industries, including printed semiconductors, roll-to-roll printed solar cells and a new generation of low cost printed nano-sensors. This technology and the ongoing work by its inventors is widely acclaimed and has been published on multiple occasions in the world’s most prestigious academic journals, including Science, Nature and the Journal of the American Chemical Society,” said Mark L. Baum, CEO of Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc.