Nanomaterials are already used in hundreds consumer products in the marketplace from cosmetics, to electronics.

Nanomaterials are those which incorporate nano-sized features. These features impart new mechanical, chemical, electrical, thermal, and biological properties that are significantly better when compared to the normal “bulk” materials. It is these new properties that have the potential to be integrated into innovative products and processes that can dramatically change the way things work.

Nanomaterials include those with extremely narrow and well controlled particle size distribution, high specific area nano-structured catalytic surfaces and nano-coatings on micron- (or even nano-) sized particles. Typically, these are nano-crystalline metals, metal oxides, mixed metal oxides, carbon nano-powders etc. Applications of nanomaterials include:

• Catalysis – lower temperature reactions and reduction of byproducts
• Coatings – low-friction, low-drag, and self-lubricating surfaces
• Light-weighting – reduced rotating, sliding, and conveying weights
• Material modification – ultra-hard, wear-resistant, and enhanced properties
• Separations – alternative to distillation and evaporative processes
• Thermal management – superior heat transfer fluids, low conductivity barriers
• Thin films – thermoelectric heat recovery, energy, storage
• Thermal management – superior heat transfer fluids, low conductivity barriers
• Thin films – thermoelectric heat recovery, energy storage

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