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Transforming and Revitalizing Industrial Commodities
What We Do
BNNano, Inc. is currently the only company in the world with a commercially viable manufacturing process for Boron Nitride Nanotubes. Our costs are orders of magnitude lower than any competitor, our quality is higher, and our IP portfolio protects our Boron Nitride NanoBarb™. We believe small things change the world and are working to transform commodity materials and bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
At BNNano, Inc. we are leveraging innovations in cutting edge materials science to transform, revitalize, and revolutionize industrial commodities. We are an advanced manufacturing company that pioneered the patented NanoBarb™, a unique and enhanced Boron Nitride Nanotube. When added to common materials, the NanoBarb™ improves their natural properties, changing them into extraordinary materials.
But what do such transformational improvements look like? It means aluminum can become as strong as steel or titanium. It means copper can provide advanced thermal management solutions. It means polyester can behave like Kevlar™. It means heat sinks can be made of plastic. In short, it means new capabilities in water purification, fire prevention and hypersonic travel.
Boron Nitride NanoBarb™
The engineered surface of Boron Nitride Nanotubes enhances the properties of composite materials. Our innovative patented Boron Nitride NanoBarb™ was manufactured to be irregular and like "re-bar," uses mechanical “barbs” to optimize the interlock with matrix materials, enhancing reinforcing properties.
The NanoBarb™ simplifies the handling and processing of nanomaterials by reducing the Van der Waals Attraction (minimizing contact area between particles), enabling higher loadings when mixed into other materials without agglomeration.
Boron Nitride Nanotubes
Boron Nitride Nanotubes are a revolutionary material first explored in laboratory environments in 1995. This unique material exhibits a desirable combination of exceptional physical and chemical properties to include electrical resistivity, syperhydrophobicity and high thermal stability, thermal conductivity, strength, and stiffness. Though similar to Carbon Nanotubes, Boron Nitride Nanotubes differ in that they are electrically insulating and thermally stable to much higher temperatures broadening their potential applications. Such attributes make Boron Nitride Nanotubes an ideal material for use in markets ranging from but not limited to aerospace, automotive, defense, and biomedical.
The Boron Nitride Nanotube has been identified as necessary to advance future technologies, but for the last several decades the material has remained an experimental novelty because no one could manufacture them on an industrial scale. Until BNNano!
What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the science and engineering of researching, innovating, and building materials at an atomic and molecular scale. This field was first proposed in 1959 by physicist Richard Feynman, but not named for another ten years. In the 1980s, modern nanoscience emerged following the invention of scanning tunneling microscopes capable of imaging individual atoms.
At BNNano we are engineering innovative materials on a nanoscale. How small is that? If you were to compare one nanometer to a meter, it is approximately the same ratio as a soccer ball to the earth, one billion times smaller.
Nanotechnology when properly applied, has the potential to use less energy, need fewer raw materials, clean the environment, and increase efficiency while improving materials. We at BNNano believe small things change the world.