SiMPore Inc

About Company

SiMPore is a Rochester, New York-based nanotechnology company that designs and produces membranes and membrane-enabled products based on its unique patent-pending platform technology - the UltraSM® ultrathin nanoporous silicon membrane. The UltraSM® membrane is the world’s first membrane to offer both tunable nanometer-scale thickness and pore size. SiMPore is developing products that take advantage of theses one-of-a-kind features, including filters for separating and concentrating biological molecules and nanoparticles, cell culture substrates for growing cells, and electron microscopy grids for preparing and imaging samples at the nanoscale.

SiMPore's UltraSM® membrane is the thinnest commercially available!

While conventional ultrafiltration membranes may be thousands of nanometers in thickness, UltraSM® membranes are less than 50 nm thin. This results in pores that have an aspect ratio of approximately one to one. In addition to their thickness, conventional polymeric membranes typically have tortuous path pore channels that can reduce efficiency and trap molecules. SiMPore's membranes have straight through-pores that minimize resistance and dramatically reduce loss.