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Nanoco Technologies Ltd. (Nanoco) is a UK-based nanotechnology company that spun out from the research group of Prof. Paul O’Brien at the University of Manchester in 2001. The company's development has been driven by Dr Nigel Pickett, Nanoco's Chief Technology Officer, whose pioneering work on the patented "molecular seeding" process has formed the basis of Nanoco's unique technology, and Dr Michael Edelman, who joined Nanoco as CEO in 2004, leading the company's growth from a two-man start-up to a publicly traded organisation with more than 120 employees across the globe. Since 2004, Nanoco has focussed its research efforts into the development of quantum dots and other nanoparticles that are entirely free of cadmium and other regulated heavy metals. Nanoco has licensed its technology to Dow, Wah Hong, and Merck.

Nanoco's head office is in Manchester, UK. The company also has a production facility in Runcorn, UK, a US subsidiary in Concord, Massachusetts, and business development offices in Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Nanoco Technologies is unique in the nanomaterials market as a company that manufactures large quantities of quantum dots (QDs), in particular cadmium-free quantum dots.