Founding Members

Canaccord Genuity

Canadian Standards Association

Canaccord Genuity
Canadian Standards Association
Canaccord Genuity is a global, full-service investment bank focused on growth companies, offering institutional and corporate clients idea-driven investment banking, research, sales and trading services.
CSA works in Canada and around the world to develop standards that address real needs, such as enhancing public safety and health, advancing the quality of life, helping to preserve the environment and facilitating trade.


Ecosynthetix

Lambton College

Ecosynthetix
Lambton College
EcoSynthetix is a global supplier of innovative biopolymers having performance capabilities equal or superior to those of traditional petrochemicals, while also offering carbon footprint reductions.
Lambton College offers a range of programs in the areas of Technology, Energy and Apprenticeships, Health Sciences, Community Services and Liberal Studies, Fire Sciences and Public Safety, Business and Information Technology and Creative Design.


McMaster University

Niagara College

McMaster University
Niagara College
McMaster University’s main focus areas are nano-photonics; nano-electronics and nano-systems; nano-biosensors; and more recently, nanotechnology-based solar photovoltaics.
Niagara Research is the R&D arm of Niagara College; it handles all research collaborations. Niagara College has several thin-film deposition systems, for photovoltaics, OLEDs and other such devices.


Queen’s University

University of Guelph

Queen’s is one of Canada’s leading universities, with an international reputation for scholarship, research, social purpose, and spirit. Consistently highly-ranked, Queen’s is known for its incomparable 24-hour learning environment.
The B.Sc. Nanoscience program is the first of its kind in Canada. The Advanced Analysis Centre & the Electrochemical Technology Centre offer a wide range of nano-instrumentation and expertise.


University of Ottawa

University of Toronto

University of Ottawa
University of Toronto
The university offers a wide variety of academic programs, which is administered by ten faculties. It is a member of the U15, a group of research-intensive universities in Canada.
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen’s Park.


Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

Western University

Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
Western Ontario university
WIN, an interdisciplinary centre for R&D in nanomaterials; nanoelectronics and photonics; nanomedicine; and devices, has a $50M Nanofab located in a new $160M Quantum Nano Centre.
Western’s Nanofabrication Facility aims at training researchers to fabricate nanoscale and microscale devices and assist industrial partners in improving the quality of their commercial products.


Wilfrid Laurier University

University of Windsor

Wilfrid Laurier University
Nanomaterials synthesis and properties; nanophotonics in theory, modeling and applications; environmental impact of nanomaterials; toxicity of nanomaterials at the celluar and organismal levels.
The University of Windsor is Canada’s most personal comprehensive university. It combines a strong and focused emphasis on the learning experience of every student with a very broad range of graduate, undergraduate, and professional programs.

Member Organizations

Nicoya Lifesciences

The Woodbridge Group

Nicoya Lifesciences
The Woodbridge Group

Nano Impacting Ontario

Serve Members

Represent the interests of members from academic, government, industrial, and financial sectors in the development of nanotechnologies in Ontario.

Build Capacity

Members work together to raise the profile, increase the research, build the investment and drive economic returns from nanotechnology.

More Information