WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.100 Hello, I am Martin Hermatschweiler. 00:02.720 --> 00:06.800 I am a co-founder and managing director of KIT-Ausgründung Nanoscribe. 00:12.290 --> 00:16.510 We make 3D printing from the finest, so to speak, additive production 00:16.510 --> 00:17.930 on the micrometer scale. 00:18.290 --> 00:22.350 That means objects that are as small as a dust particle, but can also 00:22.350 --> 00:23.990 be as large as a sugar cube. 00:24.270 --> 00:25.890 This is how scalable the technology is. 00:26.010 --> 00:29.070 We can also do this in wafer format, i.e. 00:29.170 --> 00:31.790 silicon wafer or other wafer formats. 00:31.790 --> 00:33.530 And print very well on it there. 00:33.910 --> 00:37.690 This is really world-leading technology, what we have here. 00:37.910 --> 00:39.790 Nobody offers us the forehead. 00:39.790 --> 00:41.170 And that was the conviction. 00:41.430 --> 00:44.870 We have to bring this excellence, which is at the heart of us, to the 00:44.870 --> 00:45.810 market as a product. 00:46.930 --> 00:51.770 It all started in 2006 with the Exzellenz-Initiative. 00:52.090 --> 00:56.570 We were scouting for technology fields and which pearls were in the 00:56.570 --> 00:56.830 laboratory. 00:56.830 --> 00:59.950 And there were a variety of ideas in the field. 01:00.190 --> 01:02.630 Atomic deposits and similar things. 01:02.770 --> 01:06.450 Then we thought, the technology, two photon polymerizations, which we 01:06.450 --> 01:07.290 used at the time. 01:07.790 --> 01:10.990 And where we saw, we are excellent in the global comparison. 01:11.290 --> 01:12.210 That would be something. 01:12.370 --> 01:16.950 And we were brilliant fighters of technology, physicist nerds. 01:16.950 --> 01:20.130 And we could well imagine that there are even more like-minded nerds 01:20.130 --> 01:21.750 around the world, who could need such a technology. 01:22.330 --> 01:23.150 That's how it was. 01:23.490 --> 01:27.810 We not only found others within the KIT, who work in the life 01:27.810 --> 01:28.490 sciences. 01:29.270 --> 01:30.330 We made cold calls. 01:30.810 --> 01:32.210 I picked up the phone myself. 01:32.710 --> 01:34.030 Italy, in the USA. 01:34.250 --> 01:37.010 And I just looked, how would it be if we made this technology 01:37.010 --> 01:38.190 commercially available? 01:38.790 --> 01:40.310 Would there be people who would buy something like that? 01:40.710 --> 01:41.490 And at what price? 01:41.650 --> 01:43.950 In these conversations, it turned out that there are users for this 01:43.950 --> 01:44.670 technology. 01:45.430 --> 01:49.870 And I remember in 2006, we had the football world championship. 01:50.210 --> 01:54.210 And as a symbol of the 3D printing, we thought about what could be 01:54.210 --> 01:56.690 printed there, which is somehow three-dimensional. 01:57.230 --> 02:00.850 And then a football came out of it, which was from Lothar Streben. 02:01.610 --> 02:03.050 Similar to a fullerene. 02:03.190 --> 02:05.390 So also scientifically borrowed. 02:05.970 --> 02:10.150 And that was our first symbol for the company, the first logo. 02:10.350 --> 02:13.130 It is a key technology that we have developed there. 02:13.130 --> 02:17.370 Similar to other tools, this tool is suitable for a variety of 02:17.370 --> 02:17.850 applications. 02:18.210 --> 02:21.630 But our key technology has the special feature that it not only allows 02:21.630 --> 02:23.050 the smallest structural details. 02:23.730 --> 02:27.150 But it also allows, for example, to print optically smooth surfaces. 02:28.050 --> 02:30.470 And also in optically transparent materials. 02:30.790 --> 02:35.210 It is predestined for optical applications such as micro-optics. 02:35.310 --> 02:36.410 It's already in the name. 02:36.770 --> 02:39.630 Small, miniaturized optics, to print the optical interfaces of highly 02:39.630 --> 02:41.290 integrated circuits. 02:43.470 --> 02:48.610 But it can also be on the scale of human cells or animal cells. 02:48.950 --> 02:52.610 A range of a few tens of micrometers and smaller. 02:53.050 --> 02:56.750 And then so-called extracellular matrices can be built around it. 02:56.990 --> 03:01.970 So that the cells are not in a flat Petri dish, but in a 3D construct 03:01.970 --> 03:03.090 where they feel comfortable. 03:03.370 --> 03:05.230 And what resembles their natural environment. 03:05.230 --> 03:08.610 I think we already have an overall paradigm shift. 03:08.970 --> 03:10.990 The economy is in a transformation. 03:11.650 --> 03:15.650 This transformation is in line with new possibilities that are being 03:15.650 --> 03:16.130 developed at KIT. 03:17.030 --> 03:18.510 There is also the founder culture. 03:19.330 --> 03:20.830 There is the founding support. 03:21.210 --> 03:24.630 The innovation and relationship management creates excellent 03:24.630 --> 03:25.430 prerequisites here. 03:25.690 --> 03:27.550 And here you can really start a company successfully. 03:29.070 --> 03:31.350 KIT is next door to us. 03:31.510 --> 03:34.650 So we are directly in the ZEISS Innovation Hub at KIT. 03:34.650 --> 03:38.170 For us, these are mainly funding projects where we work closely 03:38.170 --> 03:38.650 together. 03:39.370 --> 03:43.910 Joint cooperation projects, master projects that are supervised. 03:44.510 --> 03:47.110 But also, of course, the recruiting of employees. 03:47.370 --> 03:50.710 Business lunches that can take place informally with a low threshold 03:50.710 --> 03:51.410 value. 03:51.670 --> 03:55.390 You go to the KIT canteen within a three-minute walking distance. 03:56.110 --> 03:56.930 That's ideal. 03:57.230 --> 03:58.890 Last year there was a special experience. 03:58.890 --> 04:04.670 Namely, the professor who did the experimental work in the laboratory 04:04.670 --> 04:09.250 at the time, which is now the technology basis of our company, the two 04:09.250 --> 04:10.390 -photon polymerization. 04:10.750 --> 04:15.050 This professor, Shoji Maru, was a guest here at KIT last year. 04:15.250 --> 04:18.890 He is also on the Advisory Board of the Excellence Cluster 3D Matter 04:18.890 --> 04:19.510 Made to Order. 04:19.690 --> 04:22.850 And then he came to Nanoscribe to see what had become commercial from 04:22.850 --> 04:26.970 this technology, where he had laid the foundations for it. 04:26.970 --> 04:31.510 To have a good conversation with him here and not to have a envy 04:31.510 --> 04:35.030 debate, but to congratulate and only wish us the best. 04:35.330 --> 04:36.850 That was a special experience.