Dublin nanotechnology firm secures €750k funding

An early-stage Dublin-based nanotechnology firm has secured €750,000 in seed funding from a consortium including Enterprise Ireland.

Adama Innovations — a firm focused on deploying nanotechnology to common manufacturing processes — will use the funds to scale-up production of its first product; a ‘nano-scale’ probe fabricated from diamond, used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale.

According to Adama’s managing director, Declan Scanlan: “Almost anything that is solid can be analysed by an AFM.