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JULY 2005
WESTWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS
Nano-C receives $499,482 for the further development of its nanotube production technology
A $499,482 award has been made to Nano-C by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a two-year period to further develop its combustion-based nanotube production process. Objective of the SBIR Phase II project "Commercial Combustion Synthesis of Homogeneous Lots of Carbon Nanotubes" is to achieve pilot-plant demonstration of the technical and commercial feasibility of cost- and energy-efficient large-scale conversion of natural gas to single-walled carbon-nanotubes (SWCNT). Reproducible synthesis of high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes at a highly competitive price due to an exothermic continuous process will allow for a significant increase of the number of economically viable applications. Nano-C will work with end users to optimize the nanotube synthesis process for specific applications. A subaward is given to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) allowing for the characterization of nanostructured materials using various state-of-the-art spectroscopic and microscopic techniques.