Rice University Business Spin-offs

The Office of Technology Transfer at Rice University  was founded in August 1998 as a component of the University’s outreach efforts in order to make the benefits of new discoveries available to the public.

The research efforts by faculty at Rice University in the area of nanotechnology have led to the formation of the following ten businesses:

Applied Nanofluorescence, LLC

Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc.

Molecular Electronics Corporation

NanoComposites, Inc.

NanoRidge Materials, Inc.

Nanospectra Biosciences

NatCore

NewCyte

Oxane Materials, Inc.

Plasmonics