Metal Rubber™

 

 

NanoSonic, Inc. develops revolutionary new molecular self-assembly processes that allow the controlled synthesis of material structure at the nanometer level and the manufacturing of new materials with designed novel and useful engineering constitutive behaviors. Most of these materials have the added advantage of being synthesized at room temperature and pressure on a wide variety of substrate materials using a process that is environmentally benign.

NanoSonic, based in Blacksburg, Va., was created in 1998 in cooperation with Virginia Tech, the state's leading research university, and with the State of Virginia. NanoSonic has exclusively licensed nine patents covering electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) processing and use from Virginia Tech and is establishing its own intellectual property portfolio to enable process, material, and device commercialization. ESA allows the ultra-uniform formation of multiple, nanometer-thick layers of material into functional ultrathin films, and recent improvements allow the formation of much thicker films and bulk materials. NanoSonic has created a "library" of such self-assembled materials, many of them based on ESA processing, and has demonstrated the synthesis of more than 2000 individual material layers.

 
 
 

Outstanding Scientist and Innovation Award

 

NanoSonic President Rick Claus received the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Optical Engineering Society and the 2001 Outstanding Scientist Award for Virginia. He also garnered an award for innovative technology at the New Century Technology Council's Tech Nite 2000 in May. He was named the region's top developer of commercial viable technology. These awards highlight his work in nanotechnology and thin films aimed at creating materials at the molecular level.

 
   

 

 

 

 
     






 

Metal Rubber™

The Future of Nanostructured Multifunctional Composites

Metal Rubber™ a self-assembled, free standing highly electrically conductive elastomeric nanocomposite - the first material of its kind - is produced only at NanoSonic, Inc. in Blacksburg, VA.

 

 

Contact information:
E-mail: info@nanosonic.com
Address: 158 Wheatland Drive, Pembroke,VA 24136 Telephone: 540.626.6266
Fax: 540.626.6762