USC Nano-Research Helping Launch Companies

By Mike Switzer

Published July 21, 2017 at 5:43 AM EDT

Nanotechnology applications for the real world continue to emerge from research being done at the University of South Carolina. We recently came across one that began at USC’s mechanical engineering department involving a nanofluid that may bring significant reductions to commercial heating and cooling costs.

Mike Switzer interviews Dale McCants, co-founder of Ice Dragon Cooling in Columbia, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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