May 2008
MicroSurfaces will present at 2008 Life Science Venture Forum in California.
April 2008
MicroSurfaces received SBIR awards from NIH & NSF.
Feb. 2008
MicroSurfaces announced the FluidArrays® product platform, i.e. fluidic and air stable cell membrane mimicking microarrays, for high throughput screening of cell surface interactions.
December 2007 :
MicroSurfaces established technology superiority of the ZeroBkg® series of functional surfaces. Customers are using these surfaces for various applications, such as single molecule spectroscopy, biosensors, protein microarrays, etc.
February 2005
MicroSurfaces was awarded an SBIR Phase II grant
from NSF to develop membrane protein microarray technology.
August
2004
MicroSurfaces
was awarded with an SBIR Phase II grant by NIH.
July
2004
We are
growing! MicroSurfaces moves into new office and lab space.
April
2004
MicroSurfaces' coatings find new applications in data
storage devices and optics.
October
2003
MicroSurfaces
filed
two additional patents on antistiction coatings.
August
2003
MicroSurfaces was named one of top 20 players in protein microarray development by
trade magazine “The Scientist”.
July
2003
MicroSurfaces was awarded with an SBIR grant by the National Science Foundation.
May
2003
MicroSurfaces'
coating has sustained 10 billion cyles of actuation in a micromirror
device.
December
2002
MicroSurfaces'
coatings have been successfully demonstrated on a dozen of customer's
MEMS devices.
September
2002
Recognizing
the critical importance of surface control, MEMS market analyst, Yole
Development
of France, named MicroSurfaces as a key player in MEMS industry at COMS
2002.
July
2002
New
application of MicroSurfaces' coatings demonstrated: the elimination
of drift in optical MEMS.
June
2002
MicroSurfaces'
first patent on surface coating technology was granted.
May
2002
Microsurfaces, Inc received an
SBIR grant from NIH
January
1st, 2002
Microsurfaces, Inc moved into new
lab facility and is ready for providing coating service for MEMS &
BioMEMS.
November
14th, 2001
MicroSurfaces, Inc. obtained seed
capital investment.
May 1st,
2001
MicroSurfaces, Inc. wins 2nd prize in the Minnesota Business
Plan Competition. The GopherTheGold competition is run annually
by the Carlson School of Management and business/investment communities
in the Twin Cities.
November
27th, 2000
In a news article in Business
Week on "Nanotechnology", one of MSI's key surface
coating technologies, originally developed at the University of Minnesota,
is featured as a future solution to the "surface" problem
in micro- to nano-meter scale devices.
October 12th,
2000
MicroSurfaces, Inc. enters into an exclusive license agreement
with the University of Minnesota.
