Company Profile

Nanoptek was founded to develop and commercialize nanoscale optical technology that produces lower-cost hydrogen just using sunlight, water, and minimal electricity (also provided by sunlight), without any carbon byproduct. Driven mostly by recognition that large-scale adoption of clean hydrogen will help avert or reduce climate change, the tragic events of 9/11 and subsequent wars also brought home the need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. And beyond our shores, the distributive nature of hydrogen that can be produced locally on-site without grid or pipeline will enable countries, especially those without reserves of oil and gas, to produce their own hydrogen for use in manufacturing, transportation, or storage of photovoltaic electricity (EES and DES) for a better standard of living. Nano has five U.S. patents and one international patent, with nine more pending and applied for, including four international. The patents include the use of our photocatalysts to clean water and air, in addition to producing hydrogen. Nanoptek’s intellectual property portfolio also includes numerous trade secrets, trademarks, registered trademark, and license to 9 U.S. Patents encompassing photon tunneling microscopy and other near-field and nano-optical technology that the founder invented while at Polaroid. {Historical note: Nanoptek self-funded this intstrument through domestic and international sales of its Digital Photon Tunneling Microscope. Device was used in the discovery of water splitting with bandgap-shifted titania Nanoptek Corporation is focused to its products providing renewable, carbon-free, low cost hydrogen that will reduce global warming and increase the Nation’s energy security, while improving the lives of countless around the Globe by providing local hydrogen to enable manufacturing and energy management. Additionally, Nanoptek’s visible light photocatalysts will use sunlight to mediate the pollutants in water and air, addressing two more of the three most pressing iss