April 14-18, 2007 MicroSurfaces to present and exhibit at the Cancer Research Annual Meetng in Los Angeles.
March 3-7, 2007 MicroSurfaces to present & exhibit at the 51st Meetng of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore.
Aug. 2006 MicroSurfaces announces 3D surfaces for highly sensitive microarray and biosensor applications.
Jul. 2006 NHS surfaces with zero background for protein immobilization are now available.
January 2006
MicroSurfaces lauched a line of functionalized surfaces with zero background for protein immobilization. The applications range from single molecule spectroscopy to protein microarrays.
November 2005
Our customers demonstrate new applications of PEG low-background surfaces for single molecule spectroscopy and biological scanning probe microscopy.
October 2005
Our customers successfully used low-background Cu2+ surfaces for the immobilization of a wide variety of poly-His tagged proteins.
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 cycles 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.
