In the last several decades, the world has been introduced to several basic technology advances. These advances were the very minimum advances needed to spawn entirely new markets. They were also based on fairly simple premises; premises that had been locked away waiting to be found, understood and utilized. As these basics were understood and brought to market, many ways to profit from them were also found. These opportunities might have included licenses or downstream applications. An investor who can find a company at the right stage of basic discovery advance and commercialization is the investor who will profit significantly.
Applied Nanotech Holdings Inc., a technology research and commercialization holding company, works to develop and license new and patented products through two wholly-owned subsidiaries. The company directs its activities primarily toward nanotechnologies. Nanotechnology, in its simplest possible definition, involves the building of physical 3D structures, such as tubes, from individual molecules.
The company’s primary source of revenue is derived from the licensing of its technology, through 250 patents, either granted or pending. As the field of nanotechnology is a fairly new area of study, the number of applications and advancements possible is unknown. However, most would tend to agree that the opportunities available to this area of study are quite astounding.
Applied Nanotech has breached the commercialization barrier in several areas and is moving forward in markets that do appear to offer remarkable profit potential. Its recent collaboration with Optomec Inc., a global leader in printed electronics for solar, display, electronic packaging and flexible electronics, points to a solid future.
This is especially evident when one considers the opportunities that result from manufacturing very fine lines of copper in the electronics markets – which nanostructures in tandem with appropriate hardware can provide. In this instance, the company’s technology is being investigated for the replacement of silver in electronic products with less expensive and easy-to-use copper. Licensing of new technologies is never an easy business to operate in, as other companies often work as interlopers without paying full respect to a license. Applied Nanotech Holdings, however, has been working to curtail these efforts and is likely to be a leading licenser well into the future.
Although new technologies do offer some interesting hurdles to overcome as they develop, nanotechnology may well offer the possibility of becoming the next steel and structures material for decades, if not centuries, to come. In any event, Applied Nanotech is on the front lines and ready to profit.
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