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Cytonix

This article is about an American manufacturing company.

Cytonix was founded in 1984 as Cyto Fluidics at the University of Maryland's technology incubator (TAP) to develop materials and applications for a "fluid transistor" concept based on electrowetting. Developments, in part funded by National Science Foundation Grants 8760730 & 8822197, lead to the commercial production of fluidic devices and fluorochemical coatings and additives.

In 1995, a collaboration with NIH began which resulted in genomic technologies for implementing Digital PCR and the US Patent family beginning with 6,143,496 (1997). As interest in Digital PCR increased world wide, the non-genomic components of Cytonix Corp were spun-out into Cytonix LLC, and Cytonix Corp was sold to Life Technologies in 2009.

Current Cytonix Products

Hydrophobic, oleophobic and superhydrophobic coatings and additives for microfluidics, electronics, medical diagnostics, aerospace and defense.

External link


 * Company Website