Spun out of research at the University of South Carolina, MagAssemble LLC, develops nanomanufactured diffractive optical elements using a proprietary technology developed by Dr. Thomas M. Crawford, who runs a lab in Nanomagnetism and Picoscale Metrology at the university. Dr. Crawford's Pattern Transfer Nanomanufacturing⢠technology uses magnetic recording not to store data but to create complex materials using individual nanoparticles as building blocks