Nanotech Plus, LLC - Team Leaders

Samuel Brauer, Ph.D. is the founder of Nanotech Plus, LLC an alliance of consultants focused on the business

of nanotechnology offering analysis and operational assistance in this burgeoning field to major corporations, small materials companies, venture and angel investors, and other financial institutions. Established in 2004, the firms projects have ranged from due diligence on a carbon nanotube firm to estimating markets for novel therapeutics. Based on our findings, corporations have been able to develop new research directions in energy, filtration, and pharmaceuticals.

Prior to Nanotech Plus, he was with Business Communications Company for seven years, leading market research on a broad range of advanced materials topics including polymer nanocomposites, carbon nanotubes, advanced polymer composites, DNA micro arrays and in vitro toxicology.

He received his doctorate in bioinorganic chemistry involving chromium carcinogenesis from Dartmouth in 1990 and did postdoctoral work at UC Davis.