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Applied Nanotech Wins IDTechEx Printed Electronics Technical Development Materials Award
Monday April 13, 2009, 9:20 am EDT
Buzz up! Print Related:Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
AUSTIN, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 13, 2009 -- Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB:APNT.OB - News) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) and its strategic partner in Japan have won the prestigious IDTechEx Printed Electronics Technical Development Materials Award for the most significant technical development over the last 24 months (February 2007 - February 2009) in the field of material development.
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{"s" : "apnt.ob","k" : "c10,l10,p20,t10","o" : "","j" : ""} ANI won for its inkjettable conductive copper ink that can be processed in air and printed on a flexible thin film substrate such as a polyimide. This low cost technology can pave the way for a new generation of environmentally friendly products and manufacturing methods. Within the printed electronics industry, it is well known that making products smaller and more efficiently is a major way to reduce energy use, costs, and negative environmental impact.
The creation of this inkjettable ink allows geometries and layers to be placed exactly where they are needed, in a process known as additive manufacturing. The low processing temperature of the ink enables the use of thin film substrates, creating a reduction in energy use and material usage. Copper itself is substantially less expensive than silver, a material commonly used in printed electronics, while its conductivity is only five percent lower.
"It is an honor to be recognized by IDTechEx and a panel of independent experts in printed electronics," said Dr. Zvi Yaniv, CEO of Applied Nanotech, Inc. "We hope that this accomplishment will facilitate the expansion of the printed electronics industry."
"Our investors and strategic partner have dedicated significant financial resources to this effort," said Thomas Bijou, CEO of Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. "It is gratifying to receive recognition for the truly innovative nature of these developments."
Applied Nanotech, Inc. is an R&D IP company focused on solving problems at the molecular level. Its team of PhD level scientists and engineers work with companies and other organizations to solve technical impasses and create innovations that will create a competitive advantage.
ABOUT APPLIED NANOTECH HOLDINGS, INC.
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. is a premier research and commercialization organization dedicated to developing applications for nanotechnology with an extremely strong position in the fields of electron emission applications from carbon film/nanotubes, sensors, functionalized nanomaterials, and nanoelectronics. It also possesses investments related to electronic digitized sign technology. Applied Nanotech has over 250 patents or patents pending and its business model is to license its technology to partners that will manufacture and distribute products using the technology. Applied Nanotech's website is www.appliednanotech.net.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties concerning our business, products, and financial results. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted. More information about potential risk factors that could affect our business, products, and financial results are included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, and in reports subsequently filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). All documents are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from our website listed above. We hereby disclaim any obligation to publicly update the information provided above, including forward-looking statements, to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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COMPANY CONTACT:
Doug Baker
Chief Financial Officer
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
248.391.0612
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Futher details on APNT's Copper Inks from 10/2008
http://www.idtechex.com/printedelectronicsworld/articles/...
The Articles Archives:
Printed Electronics World (10/16/08)
AOL Jornals (08/26/08)
Mobile Display Aug/2008
M&A Electronics Aug/2008
Gases&Instrumentation_08/18/08
EETimes 07/28/2008
Ink World June/2008
EETimes 05/20/2008
16 Oct 2008
Country: United States
Aerosol Jet printing of copper inks
Copper has always been the conducting metal of choice for the printed circuit board industry. However, today silver is the leading metallic ink printed in a large number of current products such as UHF antennas for RFIDs, membrane keyboards, battery testers, flexible displays and is the leading metallic ink for any other printed electronics applications. Unfortunately, it is predicted that the cost of silver will increase exponentially over the years and as a result of this cost escalation, low cost but high quality metallic inks are required.
In principle copper can replace silver in many of these applications because copper has excellent electrical conductivity properties; however inking copper presented a lot of challenges, such as purity, oxidation, particles' size, dispersion quality that needed to be overcome.
As part of their strategic partnership, Applied Nanotech Inc. (ANI) is developing metallic inks that are suitable for printing with Optomec's Aerosol Jet print solution. The Optomec Aerosol Jet system is ideally suited for printing ANI's metallic inks onto flexible and solid substrates. The broad viscosity range available with the Aerosol Jet printing system allows for a wide range of vehicles, dispersants, additives and copper loadings to be used. ANI's metallic inks coupled with a simple laser sintering system were demonstrated by Optomec and ANI to achieve excellent copper metallic traces on a variety of substrates. These metallic inks have excellent compatibility with flexible substrates, and their ease of flow allows them to be conveniently used in the Optomec system. The handling of the inks in air without the need of exotic inert gases, the fact that drying temperature of these inks is less than 100 degrees C and the demonstrated stability of the final metallic conducting traces make the ANI/Optomec solution very attractive for customers seeking a complete metallic ink printing solution.
Copper nanoparticle inks used for the initial tests were chosen due to the ANI progress in achieving wide range of loadings, and excellent dispersion qualities of the copper nanoparticle in the inks. These breakthroughs were achieved by using proprietary approaches to produce adequate copper nanoparticles with predesigned properties and careful choice of vehicles and dispersants for the inks' formulations. One important advantage of these nanoparticle copper inks is the fact that they can be rapidly sintered by electro-magnetic irradiation, for example using a laser, in air at room temperature to consistently achieve metallic conducting traces with low resistivity in the micro-ohm-cm range.
These conductors also have good adhesion to flexible substrates. This additive process involving Aerosol Jet printing of the inks followed by simple sintering offers manufacturers a rapid and inexpensive method for printing electronic circuits onto a wide range of substrates. Both organic solvent based and water based conductive metallic inks have been formulated and printed with the Optomec system.
The Optomec system delivers between 1 and 5 micron size aerosol droplets at a dispersing rate of 0.25 micro liters per second, and can print line widths of between 10 and 150 microns (Figure 1). Using the copper inks from ANI, Figure 2 shows a 30 micron wide copper line achieved on a glass substrate.
Figure 1. Optomec Aerosol Jet Delivery System
Figure 2. ANI Copper Inks Aerosol Jetted and cured on Glass
The Optomec system and ANI inks were also applied on Kapton (polyimide) substrates. Sintered copper lines that are 60 micron wide and 8 micron thick were demonstrated (Figure 3).
Figure 3. ANI Copper Inks Aerosol Jetted and cured on Kapton
Excellent adhesion to the Kapton substrate was obtained. The broad viscosity range of the Optomec system (0.7 to 2500 centipoise) allows for a wide range of metallic inks and pastes to be rapidly printed and sintered for a wide variety of applications for the printed electronic industry in the future.
For more attend Printed Electronics USA 2008.
By Lauren Johnson, Applied Nanotech
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Details of ongoing negotiations with a unamed partner in the inkjetable inks area expected to be completed in April 2009.
APPLIED NANOTECH HOLDINGS, INC. EXPANDS RESEARCH AGREEMENT AND ENTERS NEGOTIATIONS TO FINALIZE AN EXCLUSIVE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH LEADING INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL PRODUCTS COMPANY.
Austin, TX October 07, 2008 – Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: APNT) today announced that the third phase of its research project with a leading industrial chemical products company in Japan, announced on September 29, 2008, has been expanded and the previously announced funding of $700,000 has been increased to $1.2 million over the next twelve months in order to accelerate the prototyping of copper inkjettable inks and product introduction. The parties also expect a fourth phase of the project, of at least the same magnitude, to begin in October 2009 to expand the applications.
In addition, the companies agreed to enter negotiations to finalize an exclusive worldwide license to Applied Nanotech’s copper inks technology within the parameters set forth in the current research agreement between the companies. These parameters include an upfront payment of up to $2.0 million and a running royalty rate of 4% on sales of the copper ink product. The parties agreed to finalize and execute the license agreement no later than April 15, 2009. During the period until then, the parties will formulate a comprehensive worldwide license agreement drafted in both English and Japanese, based on the results of the R&D partnership.
“I believe that the almost immediate expansion of this program by $500,000 following on the heels of last week’s announcement, along with the significant agreement for the overall terms for a license, show the seriousness of this application in the minds of our customer. Printable inks may redefine the manufacturing process for a wide variety of electronic devices and ANI is at the forefront of these developments, with this partner, as well as two additional Phase I studies that we have underway,” said Tom Bijou, Chairman and CEO of Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
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| Highlander, I hope you're not seriously considering an over-the-counter "nano" company. Don't make me dig into this "company" and expose it for the POS it is... |
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| Georgie boy- you are welcome to dig...a big seller of this stock was cleaned up yesterday and we will need someone to provide the buyers liquidity....go give it your best shot and short away....I'll be on the other side of the trade.... |
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Here's the classic pumper talking. "Go ahead and short" he says. You can't short this garbage which is why you can execute a pump and dump! I have no monetary gain to realize from exposing OTC garbage such as this. You pump it and then dump.
PUMP AND DUMP ALERT!
Please guys, PLEASE! You've seen this COUNTLESS times. Don't let these schmucks take your money.
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Geeeez Georgie...you sound like a scorned person....APNT is by the way not an OTC stock...
No one is pumping anything. The posts just state the facts...APNT is working on a few interesting projects in the nanotech space and may be close to an important milestone with the Ishihara project...
Thats all.......end of story... |
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Wrong again guys. Anyone who trades stocks knows you can't short a stock under 5$. Anyone who is savy enough to quote the price of a stock can see it's traded OTC.
PLEASE don't take us for fools guys.
Donpenny, your reputation for pumping penny stocks speaks for itself and isn't something you even try to hide.
Go off to another message board and peddle your wares. Everyone here is on to your game.
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Dear Administrator of this Forum. Please lose this GeorgeM guy. I thought the purpose of this site was to discuss facts related to nanotechnology Companies. Not pump or bash stocks.
The purpose of starting this discussion was to provide objective information on an exciting area of nanotech APNT is involved in with the hope others would be able to add related information. I hope that becomes the case. Thanks |
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DonPatent,
Yes, I confused you with DonPenny a known promter. My apologies.
Highlander, yes, you are right. No pumping or bashing.
So guys, firstly, you can check my track record when posting in this forum and see that I am only motivated by my desire to discuss REAL opportunities for nanotechnology investing. The track record of OTC companies touting nano has been horrendous.
Remember SI Diamond, Biophan, USGA, etc.
Wait a minute. What is this? Zvi Yaniv who is CEO of this company used to be COO of SIDiamond? Is he bringing IP from SI Diamond? Has anyone questioned how well SI Diamond did? Oh now I remember. SI Diamond changed its name to Nano Proprietary. Nano name changer? And then changed their name AGAIN to Applied Nanotech? Guys, I am suspicious here.
Anyone have any color here? |
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The ONLY colour I'm interested in is GREEN and all I've seen lately is RED.
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GeorgeM, i like this guy ... ;-)
yeah, i'm glad that you guys are at a cordial understanding ... i think that all had valid views/points ... it's usually a good thing to have a sheriff, ala GeorgeM, in town to try and keep things "real" ...
i don't think Highlander is a pumper ... he's just someone who, along with donpatent, has the patience of an elephant for something to materialize from APNT ...
About 4 or 5 years ago, I scrutinized APNT about as much as anyone else on this thread ... I had high hopes for the FED technology ... I invested a ton, after doing heavy due diligence ... I even met Zvi and Marc Eller (then CEO) in person in DC ...
funny that you mention zvi, i talked with zvi for about an hour ... i enjoyed the talk ... he seemed credible and honest in his answers ... if he wasn't sure of something, he simply said, "I don't know" ... i think engineers and scientists are usually good to talk to ... their minds are trained to think straight and logical ... at the same meeting, i talked with marc eller for about 15 minutes ... i did not enjoy this talk ... his background is real estate or something ... what the heck is he doing leading a cutting edge tech company? it is usually fruitless to talk to a marketing person or in this case, the CEO to get meaningful information ... their minds are trained for promotion ...
well, i'm glad to see the air cleared ... the thing that i appreciate about nanalyze.com is that for the most part, we do not have idiots pumping and bashing ... 4 or 5 years ago, there was a lively APNT (back then, NNPP) thread on raging bull ... whenever i offered constructive criticism, they spared no bullets on bashing ... it was pretty annoying ... some of the posters were fond of kool-aid, i think ...
well, my stake in APNT is now teeny ... if history is any lesson, back then, whenever hopeful news emerged, the song remained the same ... and thus, today i believe as well, the song remains the same ...
as always, caveat emptor ... |
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Colour came FIRST, color second - I'm just sooo conservative!
And no - not the UK. |
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Valjean...you are spot on regarding Zvi and Marc Eller...Marc does deserve credit in that he kept this company alive during some very rough times. Zvi has kept it alive as a result of being a brilliant guy and transitioned the company over into new areas which may have some promise.
What is important is that Marc is gone and one really has to look at this company from the time the new CEO Tom Bijou came aboard which has now been 2 and a quarter years. He has been brutally honest regarding the model which without going into all the details comes down to them not having control of their technology, ideas, and or IP going into commercial production. The facts, though are that they have real partners paying money to move some of their ideas forward toward potential commercialization.
Ishihara has paid them since 2006 to develop nano inks for potential applications in printed circuitry. Bijou has gone on record a number of times over the last six months as saying he is confident a deal gets done in April. The rumor is that the first application will be in a cell phone by a large European manufacturer. I posted details in the beginning of this section which gives some detail. Even if the license gets signed with Ishihara they still have to sell a product to create revenues, thus a license deal is only the first step, but represents progress which is more than can be said for most nanotech companies.
Prior to Bijou coming to APNT he turned around another public company and produced a 100 bagger for shareholders. His background is from the plastics division of GE. He is not a Marc Eller. I have spoken to him a number of times and would encourage you to do the same.
And, yes I do have the patience of an elephant. But as you know traders make and lose money. The good ones are rare. However real money is made by investors and based on objective information this speculative stock still has huge potential. Time will tell and in the meantime I will have to continue eating peanuts and admittedly am getting sick of the taste but sucking it up. No pun intended. |
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Optomec and APNT both have received recognition separately for their advances in their respected areas. See below for the tie in. The question now is who will come to the table and eat?
Many partners listed for various materials. Only two for Cooper and APNT seems to be the company recognized for their process, plus it is interesting that Optomec chose APNT out of the lot to highlight...
Our Partners
— Overview
— Solution Partners
> Material Development
Partner Program <
— Service Bureaus
— Distributors
— Centers of Excellence
Many materials have been successfully deposited with Aerosol Jet technology, as shown on the list below. Optomec has recently introduced a formal Material Development Partner (MDP) program for material vendors to certify that their materials are ready for printing with Optomec's Aerosol Jet technology. The intent of this program is to provide our mutual customers with a level of confidence that suppliers' specific material(s) have successfully been printed with Optomec's Aerosol Jet technology and once printed and verified by supplier, are fully in compliance with supplier's published specifications.
MDP provides material suppliers who develop material targeted for users with Optomec's Aerosol Jet solutions the use of the "Aerosol Jet Ready" logo which will enable our mutual customers to quickly identify available material for their specific application requirements.
Example Partner Profile:Applied Nanotech Inc. (ANI) is developing copper nanoscale inks that are suitable for printing with Optomec's Aerosol Jet print solution. The Optomec Aerosol Jet system is ideally suited for printing ANI's nanoscale inks onto flexible and solid substrates. ANI's nanoscale inks coupled with a simple laser sintering system were demonstrated by Optomec and ANI to achieve excellent copper metallic traces on a variety of substrates.
The list below contains materials that have been successfully printed with Optomec's Aerosol Jet technology. We expect to expand this materials list with the introduction of our MDP program.
AgCima NanoTech, Inc.
Harima Chemicals, Inc.
Nanodynamics, Inc
Nanomas, Inc.
Nano-size, Ltd.
UTDots, Inc.
AgPdDuPont
AuAlfa Aesar Chemicals
DuPont
Harima Chemicals, Inc.
Nanomas, Inc.
Catalytic InkMacDermid
CuMacDermid
ANI
DielectricAsahi Chemical
Huntsman
MonomersAsahi Chemical
PassivesMacDermid
PhotovoltaicDuPont
Ferro Corporation
Five Star Technology
ResistMacDermid
If you are interested in becoming an Aerosol Jet Material Development Partner,
please click here.
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| 10-K came out today and addressed the delay with the Ishirara license deal. The CEO is still confident this deal gets done in Q2 as he missed his April guidance. |
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APPLIED NANOTECH ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE AGREEMENT FOR COPPER NANO-PARTICLE INKS WITH PROMINENT CHEMICAL COMPANY.
Austin, TX, July 9, 2009 – Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: APNT) announced that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with a leading industrial chemical products company in Japan for manufacturing and commercializing nano-copper inks and pastes. Applied Nanotech will receive an upfront payment of $1.5 million, of which $500,000 is payable immediately, and $1.0 million is payable in June 2010. In addition, Applied Nanotech will receive a royalty of 4% of sales of the copper inks and pastes by its partner. The parties are also beginning discussions for a new research and development contract beginning October 1, 2009 to transition to the fourth phase of the project, which began in 2006.
“This is a giant step toward implementing our Technical Inks Printing Solution (“TIPS”) strategy based on five important modules: nanoparticles manufacturing, inks development and manufacturing, technical printing applications development, processing development, and adequate hardware. Securing a trusted, high quality technology partner with a broad base of products used in electronic applications plays a vital role in our approach,” said Dr. ZviYaniv, Chief Executive Officer of Applied Nanotech, Inc.
“We are pleased to have reached this milestone,” said Doug Baker, CEO of APNT. “We look forward to a long and beneficial relationship with our partner in this area and the opportunities that this relationship provides.”
Dr. Robert Ronstadt, Chairman of APNT, added, “I believe we will look back on this license, which provides strong support for the viability of our business model, as a seminal event in our company’s history.”
We know from the 10-K that the prominent Japanese Chenical Company is Ishihara. The question now remains, just what is Ishihara up to with copper nano inks? What are the potential applications and who are the customers they are talking to. Have they perfected the process to actually manufacture something or a piece of a process with copper inks? If so what is the timing? The Company has suggested some revenues from this, perhaps, in 2009, however it is more of a 2010 meaningful revenue event. Progress, however many questions remain.
I would be curious as to others who follow this story to see if there are opinions on the viability of copper nano inks? |
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DoE Contracts Applied Nanotech for Solar Cell Ink Development
Copper-Aluminum Nanoparticle Inks
Applied Nanotech Holdings has received a $750,000 contract to develop non-contact, printable metallic inks for silicon solar cells.
Alexander Braun, Senior Editor -- PV Society, 8/21/2009
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Applied Nanotech Holdings Inc. (Austin, Texas) to receive a contract of ~$750,000 for the development of non-contact, printable metallic inks for silicon solar cells.
Over the two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research program, Applied Nanotech will work on improving methods for the application of metallic electrodes to silicon photovoltaic substrates using its proprietary metallic copper/aluminum nanoparticle-based inks. Electrical contacts are a critical part of PV technology and represent a difficult and costly area for solar cell production. This development program is aimed at exploiting advances in nanotechnology to lower manufacturing costs and improve solar cell efficiency.
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Metallic nanoparticle inks for solar cell applications are under investigation. Examples of the copper ink show line resolution from 0.025 to 2 mm. Unique formulations for direct-print technology allow for simultaneous application of fine grid lines and the conductive buss-bars for solar cell manufacture. (Source: Applied Nanotech)
A principal aim of this effort is to reduce silicon wafer waste. To reduce silicon use, extremely thin silicon wafers are used in the production of some solar cells, and wafer breakage can result when using traditional contact methods such as screen printing.
http://www.pvsociety.com/article/328198-DoE_Contracts_for_Solar_Cell_Ink_Development.php |
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