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Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology | Volume 3
Mater Sci Nanotechnol, Volume 3
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Overview of commercial nanomaterial products and the common thread of compat
ibility
David Strawser
Technical Developments, Israel
C
onsumer Product Indexes (CPI) that relate to products
incorporating at least one nanomaterial have been
developed by several countries including the United States,
Japan and Germany. From these indexes we find about
2000 consumer products listed from 32 countries. These
products can be grouped into five major categories based
on composition: metals, carbonaceous, silicon, other, not
revealed. The "not revealed" category comprises nearly 50%
of the products, metals about 35%, and carbonaceous, silicon
and other all garner about 5%each. The types of organizations
that are conducting research and/or commercialization
of nanomaterials can be grouped into 5 major categories:
industry, non-governmental, research center, governmental
and university. Althoughwemight expect industry to perceive
lucrative advantages from developing and promoting nano-
based products, it is interesting to see that they are found to
be at the bottom of the list, garnering a mere 4%, whereas
university involvement is 12 times greater at 50%. Combined
government and university involvement amount to 75%.
A major challenge in all areas of product development
is compatibility between components and with the end
use environments. Developing products that incorporate
nanomaterials presents an even greater challenge in
compatibility issues due to either the high reactivity brought
about by the high surface area of nanomaterials, or by almost
complete incompatibility with nearly all other substances.
As we strive to produce more commercial products based
on nanomaterials, perhaps we should be questioning why
industry involvement is drastically lower than either academic
or government entities, and if a model can be found that
enablesamoreefficientrouteformlabtocommercialproducts.
Speaker Biography
David Strawser brings to the conference a wealth of chemical and
technology experience in a wide variety of industries and academic
settings that include nanomaterials, pharmaceutical and health
care, conductive polymers, electronics, waste water treatment and
detergents. In addition, to research projects with nanomaterials, he
has both worked with and headed teams that have taken materials
from the laboratory R&D stage through commercial production. His
unusual ability to understand technology and applications in unrelated
fields has been demonstrated in patents, commercial products and
processes. He currently focuses on the challenges of developing
methods to functionalize nanomaterials in order to tune compatibility
with other materials in order to maximize the contribution that the
nanomaterials make to the formulation properties.
e:
david@technical-developments.com