With long standing and close ties to Harvard and the Whitesides Labs., Nano Terra is developing smart materials, including ultra-thin electronic displays, fuel cells, sensors and solar power devices, Nano Terra has applied its expertise in surface science, printing and patterning, and advanced materials to work with over 30 Fortune 1000-sized customers in a wide range of industries, including consumer goods, aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, materials, and electronics. Key components of the firm's technology platform include Surface Engineering techniques (such as Soft Lithography, Self-Assembly, and Surface Chemistry), and Nanomaterials. Nano Terra assembles structures and at all length scales (from nano- to micro-) on flat, curved, smooth, and uneven surfaces made of a broad range of materials, including metals, polymers, oxides, and ceramics. These structures are assembled over small (square nanometers) and large (square meters) areas, and integrate into practical two- and three-dimensional systems and devices. Anchored in an impressive patent portfolio and in-place licensing agreements, the firm either enhances existing or creates entirely new products in a broad range of areas, including smart materials and surfaces, flexible electronics such as displays and electronic packaging, energy such as fuel cells, batteries and solar power, sensors, consumer goods, and other industrial products & processes. In 2011, Nano Terra acquired the small firm Surface Logix - also a creation of Dr George Whitesides - Surface Logix is a drug development company using biophysical chemistry to create new small molecule drugs and that had already raised over $100M of VC in its own right..
