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Sun Innovations Inc. is a Silicon Valley technology company developing advanced nanotechnology for a variety of commercial applications, including:

  1. Product and Brand Authentication: Our unique optical nano-materials can be directly printed or coated onto a product or label surface to add covert or forensic security. Viewable only under a special light or detectable only by our forensic scanner, BrandAuthen offers the ultimate solution to protect products and brands from counterfeiting. BrandAuthen offers an extremely high level of security, yet is readily incorporated into most existing manufacturing processes.
  2. Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Technology: Our unique optical nano-materials will better utilize the full spectrum of solar radiation, resulting in an enhanced photovoltaic energy efficiency and lower solar energy cost.
  3. Lighting, Detection, and Displays: Our unique optical nano-materials promise to significantly enhance the energy efficiency of LED lamps. In addition, they can be applied in detectors to significantly enhance the performance of medical diagnosis systems. Finally, they can be utilized to enable new types of electronic displays, for several different target applications.
  4. Nanomaterialstore.com: We also offer various types of high quality functional nano-materials at both powder and liquid dispersion forms, at competitive prices to the public market place.


Sun Innovations would like to acknowledge the generous R&D support of public agencies including NSF (National Science Foundation); DOE (Department of Energy); NIH (National Institute of Health) and NASA. Their support helps make it possible for us to continue R&D to provide improvements to products on the market today, and bring new products to market to improve everyone's standard of living.

 

New Turbo-Solar Feasibility Data Available
September 18, 2009 Sun is pleased to announce we have a new set of data available for our partners, proving the benefit of using our nanoparticles on solar cells. For prospective customers interested in boosting their solar output by ~10%, we can test your solar cells with our materials and provide you with data. For more information, contact tech@turbo-solar.com.

BrandAuthen Digital Print Update
June 19, 2009 Sun is pleased to announce we've created a printing process so we can print graphics which are invisible to the naked eye, but light up in full color under UV illumination. This allows us to print on clear shrink-wrap films, CD's, DVD's, and other materials. Authentication is more effective when it's more foolproof, and now you can print your logo so it's not visible to the naked eye, but lights up in full color for easy authentication under a UV light. Again we've raised the bar in covert security!

Sun Establishes Operations in China
April 20, 2009 Sun Innovations is pleased to announce we have established an office in China. The office enables us to provide local training of mystery shoppers as well as other operations such as coordinating purchasing operations for authentication devices.

Sun Innovations presents BrandAuthen at Labelexpo Americas 2008
September 9, 2008 Customers were excited to hear about BrandAuthen, finding it solves numerous limitations with their current cover label security features. Some didn't get the lumens of flourescence they want with their current product, and were excited by the possibility of using brighter BrandAuthen. Others had problems with taggant particle size, and were happy to hear that at under 100 nanometers, our nanoparticles would be printer-friendly, allowing them to avoid any nasty operational inefficiencies from printer clogging. Of course, having a low cost point is another market requirement BrandAuthen is poised to sate. We were interested to hear HP's Mr. Jim Colby, giving a speech on anti-counterfeiting, mention that his team rejected RFID for label authentication due to cost and concerns over tampering. Meanwhile, Labels & Labeling editor Mr. Andy Thomas commented that surveys consistently show one of the top areas of interest for label converters is label security and authentication.

August 2008 Sun Innovations Applies for New Patent

Sun Innovations announces a new patent appliction in the area of flourescing nanoparticles. This new technology allows Sun to offer a solution unlike others in the marketplace, since existing technologies are pigment based, and can't be mixed with inks or printed in clear layers over other colors. Once again, Sun provides capabilities other suppliers can not accomodate.
 

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