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Peak Nanosystems Receives Two Key Awards for New Technologies Used in Electrification and Defense

Film Disruption: Peak Nano Upends Major Markets with Game-Changing Technology

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Peak Nanosystems Raises $25 million in Funding for Growth in Optics and Specialty Films

Peak Nanosystems has completed another round of funding to fuel growth in Optics and Specialty Films.

Peak Nanosystems makes Northeast Ohio home for cutting-edge nanotechnology

Peak Nanosystems LLC is using small-scale technology to make a big impact.

The company uses extremely thin layers of polymers to manipulate materials in new ways, allowing it to create products that can be lighter, smaller, more exact. It’s “engineering at the virus level,” CEO Jim Welsh said.

Peak Nanosystems Acquires Cleveland-based PolymerPlus

Peak Nanosystems, the parent company of Peak Nano Optics and Peak Nano Films, has acquired PolymerPlus, a Cleveland-based polymer technology development company that provides polymer science and engineering services and fabrication of custom nanolayered polymer products to government and corporate clients. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Peak Nanosystems Raises $25mm Series C Round to Fund Acquisition and Expand Product Lines

Peak Nanosystems acquires Cleveland, Ohio-based PolymerPlus to venture into capacitors.

Peak Nanosystems, the parent company of Peak Nano Optics and Peak Nano Films, has closed a $25mm investment from Squadron Capital to fund the acquisition of Cleveland, Ohio-based PolymerPlus. Additionally, the company will use proceeds to expand in-house optical product development.

Peak Nano Optics Closes Minority Investment with L3 Technologies

Peak Nano Optics closed a significant minority investment on February 6, with the signing of an equity and development package with L3 Technologies (NYSE:LLL) as part of a broader expansion plan and program. Details and terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Gen. Mark Welsh Joins Peak Nano Board

Peak Nano is pleased to announce the addition of retired U.S. Airforce General Mark Welsh to the company's board of directors.

"Mark is the most transformational leader I have ever known", said Jim Welsh, chief executive officer at Peak Nano. "Mark has led at every possible level imaginable and brings an unquantifiable level of experience to Peak, we are so happy to have him join our team."

Texas A&M Foundation President Joins Peak Nano Board of Directors

Peak Nano is pleased to announce the addition of Tyson Voelkel, president of the Texas A&M University Foundation, to its board of directors.

"Tyson has been an advisor to us from day one," said Chad Lewis, president and chief operating officer at Peak Nano. "He is a seasoned leader and strategic thinker who has an amazing insight into building high performance teams."

Peak Nano Optics Completes Series A Financing Totaling $5.8 Million

Peak Nano Optics completed its Series A round of financing with a total of $5.8 million in investments, allowing the company to begin scaling up manufacturing to meet demand in the sporting optics and military markets.

The most disruptive technology in optics in our lifetime.

Using engineered plastics instead of glass, a new generation of sporting optics will be lighter, clearer, and stronger. In the past decades, we’ve seen compact roof prisms replace the bulky porro prisms in our binoculars. Every year, our riflescopes have grown heavier, fatter, and more capable of placing bullets with precision at long distances. And...

Peak Nano, Polymer Plus Join to Introduce Cutting-Edge Optics Technology

Peak Nano, in a joint venture with PolymerPlus, has formed Peak Nano Optics to launch commercial applications utilizing its ground-breaking nano-layered lens technology in the military and commercial optics markets.

Artificial lens mimics human eye’s natural design

A structure built from thousands of polymer nanolayers produces a gradient of refractive responses within a single lens. A new design of artificial lens intended to demonstrate refractive properties similar to those inherently shown by many natural lenses been developed by a US team of researchers. Based around a technology called GRIN, or gradient refractive...

Human Eye Gives Researchers Visionary Design for New, More Natural Lens Technology

Drawing heavily upon nature for inspiration, a team of researchers has created a new artificial lens that is nearly identical to the natural lens of the human eye. This innovative lens, which is made up of thousands of nanoscale polymer layers, may one day provide a more natural performance in implantable lenses to replace damaged...

GRIN optical technology could mean better implantable lenses

Although many people may think that the lenses in our eyes are just like those found in cameras, there is in fact one key difference between the two – while man-made lenses have just a single index of refraction, meaning that they only bend light in one direction, our natural lenses refract light by varying...

Bioinspired and Nanoengineered Surfaces: Technologies, Applications and Global Markets

PolymerPlus is referenced in BCC's recently published report on: Bioinspired and Nanoengineered Surfaces: Technologies, Applications and Global Markets.

Optical Manufacturing Advances

"Optical coherence tomography (OCT) aids polymer GRIN lens manufacture." Noninvasive 3D measurement of the internals of a light-transmitting substance (GRIN lens) was demonstrated.

Artificial Lens Mimics Human Eye Lens - Featured on SPE

"Drawing heavily upon nature for inspiration, a team of researchers has created a new artificial lens that is nearly identical to the natural lens of the human eye."

Exploradio: The future of seeing

Drawing heavily upon nature for inspiration, a team of researchers has created a new artificial lens that is nearly identical to the natural lens of the human eye."A paper on the research was recently published in the journal Optics Express.

Sherwin-Williams CRADLE Incubator Provides Tools For Growth

"PolymerPlus was founded in 2010 to carry out the development and commercialization of technology related to new inventions in micro and nano-layered polymeric materials and composites."

Newly Formed PolymerPlus Emerges from Layered Polymers Research at Case Western Reserve University

A spin-off venture with its roots in advanced polymers research at Case Western Reserve University has been established, aiming to commercialize polymer technology." As published by Case Western Reserve University.