Opportunities
RockPort seeks opportunities in novel material technologies with significant performance, productivity or efficiency benefits that can impact a wide range of industries from electronics, energy, power, and chemicals to transportation and telecommunications. Examples range from compound semiconductors, aerogels, and advanced ceramics to advanced polymer technologies, nanotechnologies, MEMS, and specialty chemicals.
Drivers
RockPort believes that we are at the beginning of an inflexion point where the proliferation of interdisciplinary approaches to materials development and nano-scale expertise will enable increases in performance and efficiency across a diverse set of industries. Advances in semiconductor processing, MEMS, surface chemistry, nanotechnology and quantum mechanics are conspiring to create significant economic value as the properties of materials are better understood and applied at both the micro and macro scale.