NanoBusiness Association lists 2012 top innovators

Boston - The NanoBusiness Commercialization Association has released its list of the Top Nanotech Innovators of 2012.  The list will be discussed  in depth at the association's 11th Annual NanoBusiness/Nanomanufacturing Summit September 4-6th at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA.  This discussion will be part of the program on Thursday, September
6th at 3:PM. Registration information can be found here.

This Top Nanotech Innovators was created to recognize those companies that are using nanotech to create novel and, in some cases, game-changing technologies.

Nanotech is enabling more powerful computer chips, microprocessors, flash memory, and computing devices such as quantum computers, broadband communications systems, solid-state lighting for general illumination, high-performance materials and coatings for transportation, aerospace and various consumer products, synthetic biofuels, nutraceuticals, high-density batteries for transportation and the grid, and targeted-delivery therapeutics for cancer and other life-threatening diseases. As companies continue to innovate at ever-smaller scales, the years ahead promise to be a time of
accelerating nanotech commercialization in the global economy. 

The NanoBCA's list of top nanotech innovators is broken into two groups of 20 companies to reflect the contributions of both large corporations and emerging enterprises. The NanoBCA's top nanotech innovators for 2012 are:

NanoBCA TOP LARGE CORPORATION NANOTECH INNOVATORS

Amgen - Cancer vaccines
Apple - Computer chips
BASF - Advanced materials
Bayer - Targeted delivery therapeutics
Behr - Advanced building materials
DMS - Semiconductor equipment
DuPont - Advanced materials, photovoltaics
Evonik - Advanced materials, photovoltaics
GE - Advanced diagnostics
General Motors - High strength composites
Hewlett Packard - Memristors
IBM - Quantum computing
Intel - Microprocessors
LG Electronics - Advanced materials
L'Oreal - Skin care
Lockheed Martin - EMI-ESD coatings
Mitsubishi - Advanced materials
Nanophase - Nanomaterials solutions for large corporations
Novartis - Reformulations and targeted delivery therapeutics
Pfizer - Reformulations and targeted delivery therapeutics
Samsung - High performance computer chips