News Redesigning Semiconductors “Sometimes you have to rethink the chemistry, rethink the materials, rethink the manufacturing process,” says Dmitri Talapin, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. This approach led Talapin—who specializes...
News NanoPattern Receives $1 Million NSF Grant: ‘A Validation of Our Vision,’ Says Cofounder NanoPattern Technologies recently received a $999,428 grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant program. Cofounded by Dmitri Talapin, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service...
Technology Controllable Composition Ternary Group III-V Alloy Quantum Dots and Synthesis Methods Group III-V quantum dots (QDs) are useful for applications such as photovoltaics and display technologies because of their direct band gaps and favorable electronic properties. The bandgaps of these types…
Technology Functionalized Metal Carbides For Energy Storage The invention is a novel synthetic approach for surface modification of two-dimensional (2D) metal carbides (MXenes) using molten inorganic salts. Surface modification of MXenes have been hypothesized to affect material…
News Polsky Center Announces 2020 Fall Cohort of the George Shultz Innovation Fund The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has announced the companies selected for this year’s fall cohort of the George Shultz Innovation Fund. The program...
News NanoPattern Technologies, ReAx Biotechnologies Receive $150,000 Each to Commercialize Research The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has chosen two companies – NanoPattern Technologies and ReAx Biotechnologies – to invest in as part of the...
News Polsky Center Teams Up with $15 Million Great Lakes Innovation Hub to Catalyze Innovation in the Midwest The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has joined the Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub, which was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support innovation...
News UChicago, Duality Teams to Pitch at 2021 Chicago Venture Summit Several teams from the University of Chicago and Duality – the world’s first accelerator focused exclusively on quantum technologies – pitched at the 2021 Chicago Venture Summit. The venture capital...
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
News NanoPattern Closes $1.5M Seed Round to Scale Quantum Dot Ink Production NanoPattern Technologies has raised $1.5 million in a seed round to scale its photopatternable quantum dot ink, which enables the commercialization of next-generation displays. Cofounded by Yu Kambe, PhD ’19,...
