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Nanomaterials Company is the Philadelphia metropolitan area’s first
nanotechnology company, has been a contract manufacturing and process
research and development company servicing the defense and aerospace for
over six years. Nanomaterials is located in Malvern, a suburb of
Philadelphia, and derives many ancillary services from the rich resources
located there. Organized in 1995 and incorporated in 1999 using private
investments and a small investment from
Ben Franklin Technology Partners, we are dedicated to the
development of nanomaterials, nanomaterials processing and applications, and
associated enabling technologies. Nanomaterials derived its process
technology from key technical achievements at
Los Alamos National Laboratory and has continuously expanded its
technology base since then Our business is devoted to the exploitation of
materials properties exhibited when its architecture is on the nanometer
scale and to the design and manufacture of proprietary enabling processing
equipment.
We are
presently developing relationships with industry to facilitate our emerging
commercial aspirations which include:
A)
Supply major chemical manufacturers and distributors with complex
nanopowders and nanostructured materials for resale under their label
B)
To supply process tools to manufacturers interested in producing
specific nanopowder products
C)
Research and product development services to the industry and
government, and
D)
Licensing proprietary processing technology to organizations
interested in supplying the exploding nanotechnology market with
nanopowders.
Our
mission is to enhance the performance of your products and the processes to
produce them.
The
Nanomaterials Company occupies a 5000 square foot facility in an industrial
park convenient to major highways and mass transportation. Our expertise is
focused on the production of free, unagglomerated, monodisperse, nanopowders
having complex composition, and clean (naked) surfaces. We define
nanoparticles as free particles having an average diameter well below 100 nm
and typically in the 1 – 30 nm range with narrow particle size
distribution. Our legacy has been the production of difficult materials
with exacting specifications that are not otherwise commercially
available.
Central to
the Nanomaterials technology base is a proprietary pilot plant particle
production tool capable of the continuous production oxide and non-oxide
nanopowders with a wide range in composition. The design capacity of the
tool is 1 kg per hour. This tool has been used to produce, for example,
optical grade aluminum nitride nanopowders with oxygen concentration in the
ppm range, yttria stabilized zirconia, barium titanate and many other
complex
nanopowders. Also at our facility is a full complement of other
ancillary materials processing equipment to affect precursor production, and
support process development such as, high temperature furnaces, balances,
vacuum leak detector and other high vacuum equipment, mass analyzer, drier,
dispersion effectors, cryogenic process equipment, microscopes, vacuum
Schlink line, and vacuum and conventional glove boxes, powder x-ray
diffractometer, thermal analyzers, high current, high voltage, microwave
furnace, state of the art desk top computing network, electronic record
maintenance, large array of electronic test instruments and more. We also
have a machine modest shop which supports maintenance and prototype
development. We own or have access to a variety of computer programs which
gives the company the capability to perform a variety of materials and
process calculations, and have developed a set of proprietary codes for our
inhouse manufacturing and design needs. These include sophisticated codes
for heat transfer, chemical kinetics and chemical thermodynamics,
computational fluid dynamics, aqueous chemistry equilibrium/distribution,
mechanical and electrical CAD, PLC, and other design and computational
resources.
Within the
local vicinity of the Nanomaterials Co., are university user facilities that
include modern analytical and materials characterization instruments. These
instruments include field-emission scanning electron microscope JEOL
6300-FV, analytical scanning electron microscope JEOL 6400, high resolution
transmission electron microscope JEOL 4000EX, transmission electron
microscope Phillips 400T, and JEOL 2010F 200 kV Field-emission Gun TEM/STEM,
and a host of materials testing instruments including those for static and
dynamic mechanical testing, IR spectroscopic instruments including a Digilab
FTS-40 FT-IR, Nicolet 20SX variable temperature (-200 - 100 C) FT-IR,
Mattson Cygnus 100 FT-IR with mid, near and far IR optics, several general
use Mattson 4000 series mid IR spectrometers, and Siemens D500 powder x-ray
diffractometer. A spark plasma sintering (PAS) machine with current
capabilities up to 4000 A, flexible pulse current application (1-99 s on/off
time), pressure up to 100 MPa, automatic control of the sintering cycle,
vacuum or controlled atmosphere, a MTS servohydraulic testing machine with
computer based control system, radiant furnace (1100 °C) and resistance
furnace (1100 °C); high temperature extensometer (600 °C), constant stress
controlled atmosphere creep machine with data acquisition, constant stress,
vacuum creep testing system with high resolution data acquisition system,
attritor mill with 1 liter capacity, dimplers and dual ion beam milling
equipment with cold stage and accessories, electrothinning equipment,
quantitative image analysis system, transmission electron microscope,
scanning electron microscope, electron microscope with EDAX analysis system,
scanning electron microprobe analyzer, automated x-ray diffractometer with
residual stress, high temperature and computer search, EDM machining
facility, electromechanical testing machines, metallograph with
microhardness tester, high vacuum annealing furnace, amongst other
instruments are also available for our use. We regularly employ the
services of local analytical laboratories for quality control which have a
ICP MS instrument having sensitivities of a few ppb and few ppt depending on
the element investigated.
We
specialize in the production of nanomaterials having complex composition and
exacting particle size and particle size distribution and tailored surface
characteristics. Additionally we also provide customers with materials
processing solutions and equipment to meet the needs of the emerging
nanomaterials and ultra high purity market.
Since the
beginning of our commercial development enterprise we continue to explore
new ways to produce better materials and better processes to achieve higher
manufacturing capabilities.
Nanomaterials customers include industries seeking to improve their products
or increase margins by lowering manufacture costs and the US government
seeking new ideas for the development of tools which will provide them with
strategic advantages.
The
Nanomaterials Company specializes in the development of new materials and
new processing techniques for their manufacture. The Nanomaterials company
employs a diverse array of materials synthesis techniques to develop and
manufacture advanced materials with exacting specifications and extreme
performance.
Where does
Nanomaterials fit into the “Nanotechnology” picture.
Aldrich Chemical Company has kindly
provided us with a graphic from their 2004 catalog featuring products for
materials science which represents one of several possible nanotechnology
organization chart. We believe their efforts represent a fair and balanced
picture of the field today We have superimposed our logo onto the regions
where Nanomaterials is pursuing commercial endeavors.
Courtesy
 (Copyright
Aldrich 2004)
You can find out more about
our activities in these areas following the links above. To learn how we
can improve your products, send us a note at
matter@nanomaterialscompany.com.
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15 North Bacton Hill Road, Malvern, PA 19355-1005 USA
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Phone: 610 695 0081
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