The company has developed a technology for dispersing carbon nanomaterials that dramatically improves the properties of most industrial raw materials, and enables commercial use of nanomaterials in a variety of industries – automotive, aerospace, electronics, construction, energy and communications; Nemo Nanomaterials was established in 2018 and already works with 10 companies, including giant companies and paying customers
The need for technologies that will improve the quality of life of the world’s population, which will support smart products with advanced communication, but at the same time preserve the environment, creates a demand for innovative raw materials that will make any industrial process safe and sustainable, from plastic products to electronics and materials. Raw for the transportation, aerospace and aerospace industries. In response, Israeli startup Nemo Nanomaterials, which has so far operated under the radar, has now been unveiled for the first time with the aim of bringing the green nanotechnology to the world, and providing nanomaterials that will dramatically change the way all the benefits of existing industrial raw materials. To reduce environmental pollution and efficient utilization of natural resources.
Nemo Nanomaterials was founded in 2018 by Alexander Zinigard (CEO) and Jonathan Antebi (VP of Business Development), and has so far raised about $ 7 million as part of pre-lime and lime rounds, mainly from the GEM Capital investment fund. The company, which employs 15 people in Petah Tikva and is about to enter the A round of recruitment, was established to bridge the gap between the ability of advanced carbon nanomaterials to dramatically improve properties of most industrial materials and the actual application of this capability. The use of nanomaterials also has the potential to significantly streamline industrial production processes, from reducing energy consumption in the production process, through reducing the environmental pollution created by the process and streamlining the use of raw materials.
The main gap is due to a chemical and technological challenge whose cracking requires a uniform distribution of nanomaterials within the final product, without harming them – which leads to significant improvements today, existing solutions in the market create Tradeoff: a situation where the use of nanomaterials or other additives improves Imparting electrical conduction to the plastic) at the expense of damaging another desirable feature (such as mechanical features in the product).
To date, quite a few technologies have been developed in this field, whose effectiveness has been proven only on a laboratory scale but have failed to make the transition from a laboratory to a commercially viable commercial product. Nemo Nanomaterials is the first to crack this chemical and technological challenge, namely to develop industrial additives that make accessible the enormous potential of advanced carbon nanomaterials that impart new capabilities to a variety of non-tradeoff materials in desirable properties, and to translate the solution into significant commercial scale production. .
Moreover, the technological breakthrough of Nemo Nanomaterials is the only one that allows the replacement of metals with plastics by creating the required electrical conductivity and electromagnetic masking (EMI, interference with the operation of electrical devices due to the presence of electromagnetic radiation nearby) – without compromising the original properties of the plastic. These two solutions alone – electrical conduction and EMI protection – enable the company to target a $ 10 billion-a-year target market.
Nemo’s unique technology for the implementation of advanced nanomaterials is relevant to a wide range of industrial materials, embodying a cumulative market potential of over $ 50 billion.
Nemo Nanomaterials already works with 10 companies, including multi-billion dollar corporations. Some of these companies are paying customers and some are development partners in various stages of pilots and proof of validity of the products. Working closely with the 10 companies is already bearing fruit, and Nemo Nanomaterials has started producing its products in the amount of tons in response to commercial orders from its customers.
As a first step, the company chose to focus on the automotive industry because it is undergoing significant changes, some due to the manufacturer’s requirements for smarter vehicles and some increasing regulation aimed at reducing the environmental pollution generated by the vehicles. These trends have created a market demand for advanced raw materials for the automotive industry that is projected to reach $ 99 billion by 2025. These raw materials are needed, among other things, to reduce the weight of electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles in order to increase their travel ranges, enable systems to operate Advanced smart, allow the parts to cycle more easily, reduce the carbon footprint of the vehicle and more. Apart from the automotive industry, the company’s technology can be applied in the electronics, textile, construction, telecom, energy, aerospace and aerospace industries.
“Advanced carbon nanomaterials have been known to mankind for decades, but only recently have they become commercially available,” explains Jonathan Antebi, co-founder and VP of business development at the company. “Many companies have promised that they can produce real industrial products based on these nanomaterials, but the uniqueness of Nemo Nanomaterials is that we have been able to make that promise a reality. Our nanomaterial technology solves a variety of significant challenges in the raw material manufacturing industry and at the same time develops raw material additives ready for use in existing production machines and production processes, without the need to make changes and adjustments. ”
“Refineries, not oil itself, are the ones that have reshaped the world because they have enabled the use of new raw materials that will create new industrial capabilities,” notes Alexander Zinigard, co-founder and CEO. “So with Nemo Nanomaterials technology, advanced carbon nanomaterials have the potential for change needed to reinvent the future today.”