Virginia Companies Active in Nanotechnology

4Wave, Inc. (Sterling)
4Wave provides custom process equipment and engineering services to meet challenging vacuum equipment and thin-film processing needs. The company's founders are the world's leading experts in ion beam deposition processes, and have developed the first-ever ion beam deposition production system, still in use by IBM for its most advanced product offerings.

Abtech Scientific, Inc. (Richmond)- Biomedical Diagnostics
Abtech Scientific is a biomedical diagnostics company that is engaged in research, product development, and commercialization of biosensors-based diagnostics and monitoring technologies. Its proprietary biochip technology is based on impedemetric detection of chemically amplified biochemical signals.

BAE Systems (Manassas) - Nano-lithography
BAE Systems designs, manufactures, and supports military aircraft, surface ships, submarines, space systems, radar, avionics, C4ISR, electronic systems, guided weapons and a range of other defence products, many of these with international partners. Key skills include systems integration, complex software and hardware development and advanced manufacturing.

CPFilms, Inc. (Martinsville)
CPFilms Inc., a subsidiary of Solutia Inc., is the world's largest manufacturer of solar control and safety window film for both automotive and building applications. CPFilms also produces a wide array of precision coated films for use in a variety of industries.

Luna Innovations, Inc. (Blacksburg) - Research and development, nanocoatings, biomedical nanotechnology
Luna is actively engaged in nanotechnology research and development. The company's focus areas include manufacturing process control, next-generation cancer drug development, analytical instrumentation, novel nanomaterials, advanced petroleum monitoring systems and wireless remote asset management

Luna nanoWorks (Danville) - Luna nanoWorks offers unique, proprietary nanomaterials that provide extraordinary properties to a number of research and industrial applications. Trimetaspheres® nanomaterials are a new composition of matter exclusive to Luna, with unique biological, chemical, electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties.

Luna nanoWorks is actively developing medical imaging agents which allow the design safe functional imaging agents.  Luna nanoWorks believes the 25-fold better relaxivity of Gadolinium in Trimetaspheres® will enable the radiologist to see things that he can't using today's tools.

Luna nanoWorks produces high quality carbon nanomaterials, including single wall carbon nanotubes. Luna’s proprietary manufacturing processes and modern manufacturing facility enable us to supply industrial quantities of materials for applications in imaging, photovoltaics, electronics, composites, coatings and other applications.

Materials Modification, Inc. (McLean) - Nanocoatings and Tools
MMI has developed several novel materials and processes by exploring creative solutions to tough engineering problems. MMI is a pioneer in the field of nanomaterials and coatings technology.

Micron Technology (Manassas) - Memory Devices
Micron is one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Micron’s DRAM and Flash components are used in today’s most advanced computing, networking, and communications products, including computers, workstations, servers, cell phones, wireless devices, digital cameras, and gaming systems. Micron also provides CMOS image sensor solutions to the handset camera, digital still camera, and PC video camera markets.

Nano Interface Technology, Inc. (Lorton)
Nano Interface Technology is a pioneering research organization committed to develop novel nanotechnologies in biotechnology, material sciences and the drug delivery areas. Its products include coatings for the dental and orthopedic implant markets.

NanoChemonics, Inc. (Pulaski) - Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
NanoChemonics is a spin-off corporation of Magnox Specialty Products. Utilizing a proprietary process, NanoChemonics produces commercial quantities of nanoparticle iron oxide and other inorganic oxides with applications in areas such as transparent iron oxides, catalysis, cosmetics, coatings, conductive pigments, UV absorbers, and environmental remediation.

NanoMatrix, Inc. (Richmond) - Implantable Biomaterials
NanoMatrix employs proprietary and patented technologies to produce systems that can cut, weld, etch, and shape features as small as 10 nanometers in size. Its core technology is based on harnessing the power of microjets, which are created when very small bubbles collapse near the surface of a material.

NanoSonic, Inc. (Blacksburg) - Nanostructured Coatings and Devices
NanoSonic was created in 1998 in cooperation with Virginia Tech, the state's leading research university, and with the State of Virginia. NanoSonic has exclusively licensed nine patents covering electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) processing and use from Virginnia Tech and is establishing its own intellectual property portfolio to enable process, material, and device commercialization.

NanoTITAN (Potomac Falls) - Nanoinformatics and Software Tools
NanoTITAN offers state-of-the-art software, unique databases and analytical services targeted to scientists and engineers working in the emerging field of nanotechnology

NBE Technologies LLC (Blacksburg)
NBE Technologies fabricates nanomaterials for microelectronics, power electronics, optoelectronics, and biomedical applications.  NBE Technologies is a spin-off from the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Virginia Tech, the Center for Power Electronic Systems

Northrop Grumman Newport News (Newport News) - Structural Materials
Grumman Newport News has designed, built, overhauled and repaired a wide variety of ships for the U.S. Navy and commercial customers. Today, Newport News is the nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two companies capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. (New URL is www.nn.northropgrumman.com)

Philip Morris USA (Richmond) - Nanostructured Filters
Philip Morris USA, the nation’s largest cigarette company, is the maker of Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Parliament, Basic and many other world-famous cigarette brands. Its headquarters is located in the Richmond, Virginia area, as are several manufacturing, processing and support facilities.

Qimonda (Richmond) - Electronic Devices
Qimonda, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infineon, designs, develops, manufactures and markets memory devices targeted at selected industries. With a historical emphasis on PC and server products, the company is now focusing on products for graphics, mobile and consumer applications using its power-saving trench technology.

Science Applications International Corporation, SAIC (McLean)
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States. SAIC's Center for Advanced Materials and Applied Nanotechnology (CAMAN) provides advanced material and nanotechnology based innovations to challenging defense, intelligence and homeland security applications. CAMAN programs incorporate technologies derived both internally and from partnerships with academic, industrial, and government research institutions.

Virginia Beach Sensors LLC (Virginia Beach)
Virginia Beach Sensors is a nano tech metrology company. It develops and delivers new piezoelectric thin film thickness sensors to the optical and electronic materials processing industries, with an emphasis on high temperature (100 to 1000° C) applications.

Vistec Semiconductor Systems (formerly LEICA Microsystems) (Chantilly) - Nano-lithography
LEICA Microsystems manufactures a comprehensive portfolio of products used in a wide variety of applications requiring vision, measurement, analysis or lithography, including applications in the life sciences (such as bio-technology research and medicine), the material sciences, industrial inspection and the semiconductor manufacturing industry.