[nanoPost] Nanoporous materials in tough, flexible, thin, and low cost inorganic/polymer membra

Company USA

The company's energy and security products are derived from our two advanced materials platforms possessing broad and diverse commercialization capabilities covered by numerous patents.

- Nanoporous materials in tough, flexible, thin, and low cost inorganic/polymer membranes
- Organic semiconductor materials in nanoscale dimensions that possess unique infrared (IR) optical, electrical, photonic, and stability properties including designs with less than a nanosecond, or one-billioneth of a second, switching speeds.

Nanoporous Membranes

The company's first core technology is a patented coating-based manufacturing process for nanoporous inorganic membranes. Its inorganic composition provides a very high melt and dimensional stability temperature of more than 330ºC. This thermal stability is an important safety feature for lithium ion batteries.

These membranes have an average pore diameter of much less than 100 nanometers. A significant physical feature of the inorganic membrane is that there is a nanoscale porosity of about 55% throughout the membrane layer. For such markets as lithium ion batteries, this physical feature, with its strong capillary action, is responsible for the high and rapid uptake of battery electrolytes and the excellent conductivity of electrolytes in the separator membrane. This nanoporosity also has the safety feature of acting as a barrier against the diffusion or lodging of small electrically conductive particles into the insulating separator.

Infrared Optical Materials

The company's infrared (IR) optical materials have a variety of features that are desirable in the window film, security/identification, anti-counterfeiting/authentication, financial transaction cards, and other markets including IR sensing strips for the healthcare industry. One significant feature of the company's IR optical films is the ability to have low visual color while blocking/reflecting 95% of the infrared. Another feature is the excellent stability of our IR material to light and heat.

The company's infrared optical film and laser writing technology creates unique security markings that are machine-readable by existing IR scanners and provide instant authentication, eliminating humar error. This technology offers never-before-seen markings for markets that constantly require features that are increasingly difficult to counterfeit.