NanoTune raises $3.12M for smart materials
NanoTune Technologies is a Mountain View, Calif. company that claims to have a unique tailoring process based around silica nanomaterials.
The company is capable of modifying the surface chemistry and precisely controlling the porosity of their nanomaterials, a technology that could potentially have applications in numerous fields.
The $3.12 million round of funding, the company’s first, was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Reported via peHUB.
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Chris Morrison writes about cleantech and environmental issues for VentureBeat, with occasional forays into gaming and semantic technology. He got his start writing about tech for Business 2.0 magazine, but quickly realized new media was the ticket when that institution closed its doors in 2007. Chris has also covered public equities and regulatory issues. He originally hails from southern Virginia, graduated from Evergreen State College in Washington, and now lives in San Francisco.