During an exclusive interview with the Korea IT Times on the occasion of the 5th International Nanotech Symposium and Exhibition in Korea (NANO Korea 2007), president Oh Sang-keun, PhD, of TOP NANOSYS, Inc. said: "The company's current activities are oriented toward the purification and dispersion of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the commercialization of transparent conducting CNT films, the commercialization of transparent silver ink, and last but not least the partnerships for the development and commercialization of new nanotechnology products."
TOP NANOSYS was established in 2005 as a company with the goal of manufacturing low cost, transparent conducting films of unique performance and quality, according to Oh. The foundation of TOP NANOSYS stems from the cooperative research work between research institutes in Korea, including Ajou University, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and so on.
Collaborative partners furthermore include Top Engineering, KAIST, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Kumoh National Institute of Technology and more.
"By way of the partnership with its mother company 'Top Engineering Co.' which produces LCD, OLED equipments, and semi-conductor equipments", Oh especially said proudly, "It creates synergistic effect on the development of CNT coating equipments & marketing."
Based on the company's differentiated technology power, Oh notes that TOP NANOSYS keeps growing as a trustworthy company through excellent quality's product development as a company which manufactures a variety of advanced functional films of nano materials.
By securing transparent electrodes for display-related unrivaled source technology which applied nano materials among others, TOP NANOSYS is being acknowledged in terms of its technology power in the industrial world at home & abroad.
The paradigm of the 21st century competition is being quickly converted centering around component material, the president points out. Although Korea's IT industry secures worldwide competitiveness, sustainable and self-reliant growth are difficult since external dependency of the core component material is high.
In such a circumstance, Oh emphasized: "By developing next-generation electronics component material-related source technology and by constructing mass production system through selection and concentration plus creative approach way, TOP NANOSYS plays a tractor role for the growth of domestic component material industry."
As regards the company's technology and product, first of all 'transparent electrodes' is being applied in a comprehensive fields such as touch panel, gas sensor, solar battery and more besides flat-panel displays like LCD, PDP, OLED & FED.
Carbon nanotubes are is being assessed to be the most important material among nanotechnology's achievements discovered in the 21st century, Oh explained.
Flexible displays too, whose flexibility is excellent, is being watched as a nextgeneration display appropriate for the Ubiquitous environment.
In conjunction with the company's future and vision, Oh commits himself to becoming technology-oriented company which nurtures the future value. In that regard, he said that TOP NANOSYS is growing as a company which spearheads technological paradigm based on cutting-edge material field's differentiated technology power such as transparent electrodes for display.
He further committed himself to actualizing mankind's value creation through cutting- edge technology, adding that TOP NANOSYS holding worldwide technology power in the electronics component material field is developing as a company that helps customer's success by satisfying industry field's diverse needs.