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The January 30th Hong Kong PR announces increased funding for QMC Asia (QMCA), a second research and QD production site (Changde province), and a vision for rapidly affecting the China display industry through development of QD displays. Quotes are taken from the PR. The bolding is mine and highlights other industries of interest mentioned :
Guanghui Technology Group (GTG) - solar power generation and "also involved in a number of strategic investment projects in diversified fields such as Lighting, Li-ion battery, Biomedical and Security , etc."
"Quantum Materials Corporation (QMC) develops and manufactures quantum dots and nanomaterials for use in medical, display, solar energy and lighting applications through its patented volume production process."
"QMC’s products are the foundation for technologically superior, energy efficient and environmentally sound LCD UHD displays, the next generation of solid-state lighting, solar photovoltaic power applications, advanced battery and energy storage solutions, biotech imaging, and biomedical theranostics . Wholly-owned subsidiary Solterra Renewable Technologies develops sustainable quantum dot solar technology . "
The diversity of these industries is unified by one thing - their need for quantum dots. QMCA will be both QD production product sales and R&D incubator for future spinoff joint ventures and subsidiaries. In the United States, the National Nanotechnology Initiative developed the Nanotechnology Signature Initiatives to do something similar. Their are myriad publications and reports on the progress they achieved, and future plans. The problem is never settling on one approach and following through by working together. Instead, each award recipient plows on with their separate goal with no national coordination. QD Vision won many funding competitions and awards which succeeded only in keeping the company going for as long as the funding lasted, and which justified successive venture capital raises. The DOE never saw its role as facilitating industry development by participating in the genesis of new companies by combining their best abilities in one.
For a crash course in nanotech history, here is the Nanotechnology Timeline starting with the 4th century.