Quantum Materials Corp. (fka QTMM)

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Chessmite, I am also amazed at the web
of universities involved in KAUST Solar Research.

First of all, I looked at the Faculty of
Kaust. Dr. Jabbour is the Director of the
Solar Center, but there are no listed
faculty under him that I could find. All
the other faculty are under their own specific
discipline, from mechanical engineering,
chemistry, mathematics, etc, and all the
projects are interrelated and interdepartmental!!!
He coordinates research that uses resources
in the other disciplines. It's all project oriented.
The object is to do whatever it takes to get the end result
they want.

Second, I looked at the cooperating universities
in the wheel in the middle of this page. Each part of the wheel
and the list right under are all hyperlinks so you can go
to that university's page for a lot more information.

KAUST Solar

Leveraging Leading International Partnerships: In achieving its vision, and further strengthening its mission, the Solar Photovoltaic Engineering Research Center will establish close ties with partnership programs sponsored by KAUST at various leading institutions. This global partnership includes but is not limited to the Global Research Partnership’s Centers and Centers in Development, and KAUST Investigators. In an effort to have wider representation and best complement our vision, the Center will expand this network to involve other research partners from academia, national laboratories, and industry, worldwide.


KAUST Academic Excellence Alliance

* Stanford University

KAUST Global Research Partnership

* Stanford University
* Cornell University
* National Taiwan University
* Dr. Edward Hartley Sargent, University of Toronto
* Dr. Yi Cui, Stanford University
* Dr. Paulo Monteiro, University of California Berkeley

I was especially impressed with Cornell, which is a network of universities itself, with a ultra-modern lab and its own research
to develop, NIBS, and also with Dr. Sargent of Toronto, who I think could hold his own with Jabbour in a conversation, at the least. There are bios and interviews at the links. Jabbour is at the center, of it all. Worth a read to get the scope of research being done by a group of the best research universities in the world. KAUST will be the MIT of the rest of the world!

I am equally impressed with Dr. Michael Wong's travels to Universities around the world. While much of it was done prior to 2006-7 when he published his important papers on CdSe synthesis,
he has a network of nanoparticle researchers around the world he can confer with when he needs. He has trained many others now in positions of responsibility at other universities. Looking at his
research published page on his department link, he has been working on many different projects, with different compounds and their synthesis, other projects including Au - gold, on nanoparticle carriers for medical uses, and on encapsulation.

Dr. Bob once mentioned that QMC will have a varied IP portfolio,
and it is possible that research from other work of Dr. Wong, or from other universities research could end up at QMC.

If all these universities are experimenting with QD, and have to synthesize them themselves, and their product is only 50% whole
QD, and still expensive to produce, using highly toxic materials,
why would they do that when they can purchase low price, high quality QD from QMC with which to experiment? Their goal is not to synthesize QD, that is a chore! Their goal is what they can do with the QD! And if they come up with an advancement or a use for it in a product, whoever brings that to commercial manufacture would love to buy QMC TQD. When I read research papers and PR, they always say that they are years away from Commercialization.
Why? Because they cannot mass produce the product at the best quality, cost-effectively!!! They can make QD pulse at distances, but they can't do it in large quantities. Well, if they work with QD that can be produced in mass quantity, then what they get it to do can be brought to commercialization really quick! Scientists study things for the sake of discovery, G-d bless 'em, and it takes an entrepreneur like Mr. Squires to have the vision on how to make that discovery valuable, an equally rare talent.
I am sure they are trying to get TQD in as many hands as possible so they can try it. The universities are one major part of that.

GLTUs!