Nano Terra

Nano Terra, Inc. is a privately held nano and micro technology development company and is based in Brighton, Massachusetts.

Nano Terra was founded in 2005 and the company business model is based on establishing long-term collaborations with leading manufacturers and marketers in a wide range of industries.

The company develops surface features for anti-reflective and anti-smudge glass and engineers high-strength and low-abrasion materials. The company also offers displays and electronic packaging materials, fuel cells, batteries and solar power, sensors, and consumer goods.

In 2007 Harvard University granted Nano Terra a license to a portfolio of more than 50 issued and pending patents, which cover nano and microscope molecular fabrication methods for advanced materials and devices.

The deal is one do the largest patent portfolios ever transferred from university to a start-up company.

Around 2008 Nano Terra had a staff of about 30 people and laboratories in Cambridge, Mass. But it also tapped into a global network of academic and industrial collaborators, some of whom are co-inventors of Nana Terra’s IP.

In October 2008, Nano Terra and German drug maker Merck KGaA upgraded their existing product development partnership to a commercialization deal. Nano Terra helped co-develop Merck’s ‘printable electronics’ using nanometer-sized materials and a soft lithography techniques called micro-contact printing.
Nano Terra