Dr Anna Gergely from Steptoe & Johnson LLP will be co-hosting the 3^rd NCEM-1 meeting on 6th and 7th November in Brussels. She would be also providing an insight into nanomaterials related regulations in the EU at the meeting. Our guest speakers are also Dr David Arthur CEO of the SWeNT in the US on of the lading SWNT producers and Dr Peter Krueger, Head of Working Group Nanotechnology, Bayer MaterialScience AG who is based in Leverkusen, Germany. Peter is also leading InnoCNT €90M German Government supported programme about carbon nanotube commercialisation. Christos Tokamanis who is Head of Nano Sciences and Technologies at the European Commission in Brussels will also give a presentation about FP7 NMP Theme and an insight into nanotechnologies and nanomaterials within a new Horizont2020.

The NCEM-1 meeting delegates came from: University of Cambridge (UK); Nokia Research Centre (UK); ST Microelectronics (Italy); International Copper Association (USA); Nexans (France); Bosch (Germany); Codelco (Chile), Thales UK (UK), National Grid (UK), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Arup (UK). They would be joined for the 3rd meeting in Brussels with speakers from: Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Bayer MaterialsScience, European Commission and SWeNT.

For further details and information how to join the consortium please contact Dr Bojan Boskovic who is a leader of the consortium: Bojan.Boskovic@cnt-ltd.co.uk or Bojan.Boskovic@cfbi.com.

The 2^nd meeting of the 1^st Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials (NCEM-1) consortium has taken place on 18th and 19th July 2012 in Dalmahoy Marriott Hotel and Country Club in Edinburgh, the Scottish Baronial Manor set in 1000 acres of parkland and one of Scotland’s premier golfing venues (www.marriottdalmahoy.co.uk).

NCEM-1.2 Edinburgh meeting venue

The morning session started with the “Masterclass in NanoSafety: The health, safety & business risks in nanotechnology innovation and how they can be addressed” delivered by Dr Steve Hankin and Dr Craig Poland from the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) from Edinburg in Scotland. This was followed by the panel discussion. After the lunch the meeting delegates had an opportunity to hear Dr Kyle Kissell, Director of Technology Development from NanoRidge, USA who presented recent development to incorporate highly conductive carbon nanotubes into copper metal that resulted in a composite material with superior properties, higher electrical conductivity and increased current carrying capacity, as compared to conventional copper. His presentation was followed by presentation from Dr Francesco Bonaccorso from University of Cambridge about graphene applications in electronics and an update about European FP7 NMP 2013 call for collaborative R&D proposals given by Dr Bojan Boskovic.

Dr Kyle Kissell, Technology Development Director from NanoRidge Materials commented after the meeting:

 “I believe that consortia like this are a critical step towards bridging the gap between extraordinary science and products commercialization. We feel privileged to be invited to speak to a group that is interested in DOING something as opposed to just TALKING about something. The connections we created during the two days of interactions will be crucial for the success of our products and our company.”

The 1^st NCEM-1 Cambridge meeting delegates, speakers and guest came from: University of Cambridge (UK); Nokia Research Centre (UK); ST Microelectronics (Italy); International Copper Association (USA); Nexans (France); Bosch (Germany); Codelco (Chile), Thales UK (UK), National Grid (UK), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). They were joined for the 2^nd NCEM-1 meeting by delegates, speakers and guest coming from: Arup (UK), Institute of Occupational Medicine (UK), Manchester University (UK) and NanoRidge (USA).

For further details and information how to join the consortium please contact Dr Bojan Boskovic who is a leader of the consortium: Bojan.Boskovic@cnt-ltd.co.uk or Bojan.Boskovic@cfbi.com.

Prof. Alan Windle from University of Cambridge addressing delegates at the NCEM-1 dinner.

The 1st Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials Consortium (NCEM-1) launched at the meeting in Downing College Cambridge, UK yesterday (19th April 2012) and the opening dinner at Trinity Hall Cambridge on 18th April 2012. The consortium brings together potential users from defence, electronics, structural materials, metal refining and power generation industries with a shared interest in understanding the challenges and opportunities of nano-carbon disruptive technologies.

The NCEM-1 Cambridge meeting delegates and consortium members were addressed by leading academics from University of Cambridge and experts in the field of nano-carbon materials: Prof. Bill Milne from Department of Engineering who gave presentation about nano-carbon electronics and Prof. Alan Windle and Dr. Krzysztof Koziol from Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy who presented scientific advances and commercialisation challenges related to carbon nanotube fibre technology. The NCEM-1 consortium members form Nokia Research Centre (UK) and International Copper Association also gave presentation about their vision and challenges related to commercialisation of nano-carbon technologies in mobile electronics and copper metal composite applications.

NCEM-1 delegates at Downing College.

The NCEM-1 Cambridge meeting delegates and consortium members coming from 7 different countries and include: University of Cambridge (UK); Nokia Research Centre (UK); ST Microelectronics (Italy); International Copper Association (USA); Nexans (France); Bosch (Germany); Oxford Instruments (UK), National Grid (UK), Thales UK (UK), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and Codelco (Chile).

Dr Bojan Boskovic, CEO of Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd, who leads the consortium said: “Delegates are interested in three main areas of application: next generation of electronic materials, smart structural materials, and improved thermal and electrical conductors. We are looking to help development of nano-carbon technologies and facilitate supply chain building. ”

NCEM-1 delegates at Downing College.

Dr Peter Hewkin of Centre for Business Innovation (CfBI) added “The NCEM-1 consortium joins a number of other consortia run by CfBI, these include: Microfluidics, Open Innovation and Inclusive Design, all of which have close links with the University of Cambridge”.

Malcolm Burwell from the International Copper Association commented after the consortium meeting “We all felt that the value obtained from the single meeting that we just had justified the yearly fees on its own.”

The NCEM-1 consortium is open for new members to join and it will initially run for a period of 12 months during which it will visit Scotland, Germany and Belgium. For further details and information how to join please contact Bojan.Boskovic@cnt-ltd.co.uk.

Read about the NCEM-1 Cambridge meeting on the Cambridge Business Media:

http://www.cabume.co.uk/hardware/new-consortium-launches-to-advance-graphene-and-nano-carbon-technology.html

The first Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials Consortium (NCEM-1) will launch at Downing College, Cambridge on 19th May 2012. The mission of the consortium is to facilitate the commercial uptake of technologies based on nano-carbon materials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes.

Members of the consortium include: University of Cambridge (UK); Nokia Research Centre (UK); ST Microelectronics (Switzerland); International Copper Association(USA); Nexans (France); Bosch (Germany); Oxford Instruments (UK) and Codelco (Chile).

The consortium is organized by the Centre for Business Innovation (CfBI) and will be facilitated by Dr. Bojan Boskovic, an international expert in nano-carbon technologies.

Dr. Peter Hewkin, chief executive of CfBI tells us “the consortium arises from shared interests amongst member organisations to work together on certain aspects of commercialisation while keeping other parts of their work and IP separate. The NCEM-1 work programme is driven by its member organisations from around the world and designed to address key aspects of commercialisation of the fast moving nano-carbon technologies”.

Dr. Bojan Boskovic adds “exiting potential and fast moving development of many applications using carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene created urgent need to address issues such as supply chain regulation, material standardisation, health and safety and scenarios for uptake before full potential these nanotechnologies can be realised.”

The NCEM-1 consortium will meet at centres of excellence across Europe in the coming year starting with the first meeting hosted by the University of Cambridge. For further information please contact: Bojan.Boskovic@cfbi.com

About Centre for Business Innovation (CfBI): founded in 2009 in Cambridge UK, this organisation manages consortia around fast moving areas of business process or technology such as: Microfluidics; Open Innovation and Inclusive Design. For more information visit www.cfbi.com

About the NCEM-1 consortium: The consortium is funded and guided by its members who come from all positions along the nano-carbon supply chain and bring perspective of different applications of carbon nanomaterials including: novel electronic devices; light weight and self-diagnosing structural materials, novel composite nano-carbon based polymer, metal and ceramic nanomaterials and “super copper”. For more information visit http://www.cfbi.com/index_files/nanocarbon.htm

Read about the NCEM-1 launch at the Cambridge Network website:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/nano-carbon-enhanced-materials-consortium-launches-in-cambridge/

Read about the NCEM-1 launch at the Plastics and Rubber Weekly PRW.com:

http://www.prw.com/subscriber/headlines2.html?id=713

Dr Bojan Boskovic from Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology gave a lecture on 25 January 2012  “Commercialisation of Carbon Nanomaterials“ as a part of the Applied Lectures series of the MPhil course in Nanotechnology at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge organised by Dr Catherina Ducati.

The Nano Enhancers for Plastics 2012 conference will be on 20-21 March 2012 in Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Brussels, Belgium. Dr Bojan Boskovic from Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology is giving a presentation on Enhancing plastic using carbon nanomaterials on Day 2 of the conference.

Enhancing plastic using carbon nanomaterials

• In a past decade a fast pace of carbon nanotube commercialisation has seen all major manufacturers scaling up their production facilities from kilograms to hundreds of tonnes per  year with a number of applications constantly expanding.
• It is predicted that the commercialisation of graphene might follow the same route as carbon nanotubes in the coming decade.
• One of the main markets for carbon nanotubes have been their use as enhancers in plastic materials to improve electrical, mechanical and thermal properties and to add functionality and provide sensing ability.
• The carbon nanotube commercialisation route from the pioneering research results and the first patents to the first applications and the scale-up will be presented with the special focus on application in enhancing plastic materials. The history of the carbon nanotube manufacturing scale-up together with the key manufactures and their position on the market will be discussed.
• Similarities and differences between carbon nanotube and graphene production process and application in enhancing plastic materials will be also discussed with the aim to make possible predictions about graphene manufacturing scale-up and application in the future.

The Nano Enhancers for Plastics 2012 conference is one of the leading events in 2012 that brings together leaders from industry to talk about use of nanomaterials to enhance plastic properties and speakers from companies and institutions such as Nokia, Bayer, US Army Research Labs, and Institute of Nanotechnology among others.

Please follow the link to the conference programme for Day 2 and abstract of Dr Bojan Boskovic’s talk: http://www.nanosconference.com/nanoconferences2012/day-2

The Stuttgart NanoDays 2011 conference has be held in Stuttgart at 29^th and 30^th September 2010. Dr Bojan Boskovic from Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology has given a presentation on Commercialisation of Carbon Nanomaterials.

The Stuttgart Nanodays provides an environment to openly discuss real problems, technological challenges and future potentials with worldwide top researchers and an opportunity to bring industry and academia together to make innovation happen.

Please follow the link to a video of Dr Bojan Boskovic talking about Stuttgart Nanodays on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oqf2i49Xr8

Please follow the link to look the videos of about the Stuttgart NanoDays: http://www.stuttgart-nanodays.de/videos

Please follow the link to look the list of speakers and find out more information about the Stuttgart NanoDays: http://www.stuttgart-nanodays.de/speakers

Dr Bojan Boskovic from Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology has been appointed as Non-Executive Member of the Advisory Board to the Vendum Batteries, Inc Management Team. As an advisor Dr Boskovic is helping the Vendum Batteries to commercialise the carbon nano-paper battery technology with his expertise and experince in carbon nanotechnology.

Fraser Cottington, CEO of Vendum, believes that Dr. Boskovic’s appointment marks the next phase in the company’s development: “We are very excited about working with Dr. Boskovic, he understands new materials and how to deliver solutions in multiple industry applications, his expertise will help drive the company forward towards new and exciting frontiers in a number of clean energy market sectors.”

This news has been reported by a number of the business news website in March 2011. Please follow the link to see at the Reuters website:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/29/idUS135993+29-Mar-2011+MW20110329

Please follow the link to the Vendum Batteries website to read about this and get more information about the company:

http://www.vendumbatteries.com/pages/788/management-team

B O Boskovic et al, Carbon Nanomaterial Synthesis by Chemical Vapor Deposition, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol 12, 2011, 109-135

The second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology has been published by the American Scientific Publishers earlier this year. In this editon a chapter about Carbon Nanomaterial Synthesis by Chemical Vapour Deposition with Dr Bojan Boskovic from the Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd (CNT Ltd) as the first author has been published in the Volume 12 (pages 109-135).  

The first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 10-Volume Set, (Edited by H. S. Nalwa, Foreword by Professor Richard E. Smalley, Nobel Prize Laureate, Endorsed by Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize Laureate) that appeared in 2004 received the “2005 Best Reference Work Award” of the American Society for Engineering Education (USA) and “2005 Outstanding Academic Title” by the CHOICE magazine from the American Library Association (USA). With the addition of new 15 volumes, the entire edition’s 25 volumes now contains over 710 review chapters (nearly 300 of which are brand new), contributed by over 2,000 of the world’s leading scientists from top-notch academic and industrial institutions worldwide. The 25 volumes of encyclopaedia now contains approximately over 700 articles, 150,000 bibliographic citations and thousands of illustrations, figures, tables, and equations covering over 22,000 pages which hundreds of images/figures/illustrations in colour.

Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 25 volumes set

The 25-volume set contains the largest number of state-of-the-art review chapters ever published in the world in the field of nanotechnology. Each chapter is fully cross-referenced, introducing some of the most important nanotechnologies under development today.

Please follow the link to the American Scientific Publishers website to find out more about the encyclopaedia: http://www.aspbs.com/

Dr Bojan Boskovic from the Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd (CNT Ltd) has given an invited talk on Commercialisation of carbon nanotubes and graphene at the Nanoentrepreneurs in East Anglia event on 11 May 2011 at the Hauser Forum in Cambridge, UK.

In a past decade a fast pace of carbon nanotube commercialisation has seen all major manufacturers scaling up their production facilities from kilograms to hundreds of tonnes per year with a number of applications constantly expanding. It is predicted that the commercialisation of graphene might follow the same route in the coming decade. The Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology through its network of associated experts is offering consulting advice and support for the government institutions, universities and companies related to all technical, IP and market related issues in the process of carbon nanomaterials commercialisation.

Taking research past development and into real cash revenues is not an easy exercise with many potential pitfalls and opportunities that present themselves to the entrepreneur and no one route to secure expanding wealth. Cambridge and its surroundings are known as one of the most innovative regions in the world and studies have shown that geographical clusters of the innovation actors such as small and medium companies, investors, intellectual property experts, technology exploitation services and mass manufacturers are crucial elements if real returns are to be made from public funded investments in the long term.

The NanoKTN, in partnership with the FP7 NanoCom project*, is convening its regular regional workshop of the NanoEntreprenuers focus group seminar at The Hauser Forum in Cambridge with the aim of fostering links and growing business opportunities to this important global hub of innovation.

To find a list of speakers and abstracts please follow the link:
https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/nanoentrepreneurs-east-anglia-workshop/speakers