About Us:
Seashell Technology LLC is a privately held San Diego-based
nanotechnology company. Seashell Technology was formed by President and
co-founder Dr. Sheldon Schultz who has had over 20 years experience
working and developing nanocomposite materials and novel metamaterials.
Since its inception in 1996 Seashell Technology has developed plasmon
resonant particles for use as optically observable biological labels,
and for other applications.
The interdisciplinary team at Seashell Technology now has the
capability to manufacture a wide range of multifunctional particles
with nanoscale precision for a variety of applications. Seashell
Technology develops and sells custom nanomaterials, but specializes in the
large scale production of silver nanowires for use in the electronics
industry (see Press
Release).
Custom particles are produced where each component
imparts a specific functionality to the particle. For example, the
particle's magnetic, fluorescent, optical scattering, density,
porosity, chemical composition, geometric shape, and surface
functionality can each be individually adjusted to suit a particular
application. Building upon these core materials and competencies
Seashell Technology has developed specialized particles as transport
vehicles for high efficiency delivery of DNA and siRNA to target cells
and tissues.
Seashell Technology also is engaged in the development of a number
of specialized coatings with unique functionality. For example, super
oil absorbent coatings, also known as super-oleophilic (SOP) coatings,
have been developed and the ability of these coatings to absorb oil in
water environments is currently being investigated under a NSF Rapid
award (see Press Release).
Seashell Technology has ongoing projects with the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), divisions of the Department of Defense
(DOD), universities, and public institutions.
Our products and services provide industrial, academic, and
government researchers access to a wide variety of tools that will have
an immediate impact on the success of their scientific investigations.
Seashell Technology is pleased to supply custom or stock nanocomposite
materials for particular applications, work collaboratively to develop
Value Added improvements to new and existing technologies and products,
license technologies developed in-house, partner with outside companies
for distribution, or distribute product directly to the consumer.
- Shelby, R.A., D.R. Smith, and S. Schultz, Experimental
verification of a negative index of refraction. Science, 2001.
292(77).
- Mock, J.J., M. Barbic, D.R. Smith, D.A. Schultz, and S. Schultz,
Shape effects in plasmon resonance of individual colloidal
silver nanoparticles. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2002.
116(15): p. 6755-6759.
- Mock, J.J., S.J. Oldenburg, D.R. Smith, D.A. Schultz, and S.
Schultz, Composite plasmon resonant nanowires. Nano Letters,
2002. 2(5): p. 465-469.
- Barbic, M., J.J. Mock, D.R. Smith, and S. Schultz, Single
crystal silver nanowires prepared by the metal amplification
method. Journal of Applied Physics, 2002. 91(11): p.
9341-9345.
- Oldenburg, S.J., C. Genick, K. Clark, and D.A. Schultz, Base
Pair Mismatch Recognition Using Plasmon Resonant Particle
Labels. Analytical Biochemistry, 2002.
- Schultz, S., D.R. Smith, J.J. Mock, and D.A. Schultz, Single
Target Molecule Detection with Non-Bleaching Multicolor Optical
Immunolabels. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sciences., 2000. 97: p.
996-1001.
- Schultz, D.A., Plasmon Resonant Particles for Biological
Detection. Curr. Opin. Biotech., 2003. 14: p. 13-22.
- Glass JR, Dickerson JC, Schultz DA, Enzyme-mediated individual
nanoparticle release assay. Anal Biochem., 2006 Jun 15;
353(2): p. 209-16
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