In August 2007, the firm was acquired by Advion BioSciences. Advion intends to add NanoTek to its micro and nano-scale LC-MS analytical platform as well as to continue investing in NanoTek's research and development and chemistry development. NanoTek co-founder and Chief Executive Joe Matteo will stay on at Advion as president of its accelerated chemistry division and a member of its executive committee.NanoTek, Inc. focuses on the R&D and manufacture of nanostructured analytical instruments and chemical sensors. NanoTek has several pending patents on chemical sensors, nanofabricated gas chromatographs (GC) and GC subsystems. NanoTek, Inc.âs products, the miniature nanostructured column-oven systems (NanoColOve Series) weighs only 50 grams and it has more than 500,000 theoretical plates and it truly represents state-of-the-art technology in analytical separations. Other products under development include photocatalytic sensors, and nitrogen oxide optrod
