Nanografi Nanotechnology

Nanografi Company was awarded with Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase 1 grant by European Union to launch one of the largest Graphene Manufacturing Plants in the world with its patent pending eco-friendly and cost efficient production method (GREENGRAPHENE). With its disruptive innovation of GREENGRAPHENE, Nanografi has applied for European Commission’s Horizon 2020 SME Instrument programme, a highly competitive and reputable fund aiming to increase Europe’s global competitiveness, and granted to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises with innovative & groundbreaking projects in Europe. As one of the pioneers in the field, Nanografi developed a graphene production method in 2016 which releases no hazardous substance to the environment, leaves almost no waste behind, and decreases the costs in significant amounts, without sacrificing the quality. Graphene Production is now Eco-Friendly as well Before 2016, graphene production was not only costly, but also suffering from en...

Clays are used in architecture, industry, and agriculture throughout prehistoric times. It remains one of the essential minerals for industry. Ceramists have used  nanoclays  without knowing nanoparticles, and they improved the science of clays since antiquity. Furthermore, many applications have been found recently, and resulting indications of nanoclays are reduction of cost and improvement of product quality. Clay minerals can be described as fine-grained hydrous silicates with sheet-like structure, so they are stacked over one another. Different from clays, nanoclays are clay minerals in nanometer range at least one dimension with high aspect ratio. Figure 1:  Nanoclay Morphology. Nanoclay A is pure montmorillonite with Na+  inorganic group, nanoclay B is pure montmorillonite with hydroxyl organic ammonium, and nanoclay C is pure montmorillonite with double alkyl ammonium . Jiangmiao Yu, Zhibin Ren, Huayang Yu, Duanyi Wang, Shekhovtsova Svetlana,...

Nanoclays are  nanoparticles/nanopowder  of layered mineral silicates optimized for use in clay nanocomposites– multi-functional material systems with several property enhancements.  Nanoclays  are a broad class of naturally occurring inorganic minerals. Nanoclays are the most commonly used commercial additive for the preparation of nanocomposites, accounting for nearly 80% of the volume used. And depending on chemical composition and  nanoparticle/nanopowder  morphology, nanoclays are organized into several classes such as montmorillonite, bentonite, kaolinite, hectorite, and halloysite of which plate-like montmorillonite is the most commonly used in materials applications. Montmorillonite nanoclay consists of ~ 1 nm thick aluminosilicate layers surface-substituted with metal cations and stacked in ~ 10 µm-sized multilayer stacks. Even at low nanoclay loading (a few weight %),the entire  nanocomposite  consists of interfacial polymer, with m...