[nanoPost] Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), inks and films

The company produces custom grades of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), inks and films, which are sold directly to customers and partners in a broad range of industries. Main product development area is carbon nanotube-based transparent, conductive films (TCFs) for the electronics industry. TCFs are a component in devices such as touch panels, displays, and thin-film solar cells.

The company's high performance carbon fibers are used in structural composites in a wide range of applications including aerospace, automotives, and sporting equipment. The CNTs act as a nucleating agent for polymer crystallization thereby providing a template that improves the polymer orientation.

In addition to forming the basis for a new generation of carbon fibers to be used in composites, carbon nanotubes can be dispersed in polymers and epoxies to improve the compression, shear, and bending properties of composites, including stiffness, toughness, fatigue life, failure mechanisms and wear properties. For example, nanotubes can be used to improve the modulus and toughness of elastomers. Nanotubes have also been shown to improve several mechanical properties by several tens of percents in a wide variety of thermoset composite systems at loading levels of one percent or less.