OCSiAl
| Private | |
| Industry | Materials, Nanotechnology |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg |
Number of locations |
Palo Alto, California, USA Novosibirsk, Russia Seoul, South Korea London, United Kingdom Berlin, Germany Columbus, Ohio, USA |
Key people | Yuriy Koropachinskiy, Oleg Kirillov, Mikhail Predtechenskiy, Yuri Zelvenskiy |
| Products | SWCNT and SWCNT-based industrial modifiers |
| Brands | TUBALL™ |
| Website | http://ocsial.com |
OCSiAl is an international nanotechnology company conducting its operations worldwide. The OCSiAl offices are located in the US, Europe (UK, Luxembourg, Germany, Russia), and Asia (South Korea), with a team of more than 160 employees total.
Technology
A facility for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) production, based on the synthesis technology developed by of one of the OCSiAl's founders (the Russian scientist and Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Mikhail Predtechensky), was built in the Russian city of Novosibirsk - the Nanotechnology Incubator in Akademgorodok.[1]
The synthesis technology used by OCSiAl allows cost-efficient SWCNT production at industrial production volumes, which also reduced production costs by up to 100 times. As of December 2, 2014 the SWCNT market price ranged from $2.00 to $8.70 per gram, according to the company's web-site. [2][3]
In December 2014 Frost & Sullivan recognized the OCSiAl Group with its 2014 North American Award for Technology Innovation for OCSiAl’s TUBALL™ SWCNT products. The award was given for the high purity and large-scale production capability that TUBALL™ products provide, significantly increasing the commercialization potential of single-walled carbon nanotube products. [4]
Products
The company’s core product is TUBALL™ – a unique material containing 75% and more of single wall carbon nanotubes that can be used as a universal additive for a wide range of materials and carriers, changing the characteristics of structural strength, permeability, electrical conductivity, and thermal transport.[5]
OCSiAl developed a variety of additive modifiers based on TUBALL™ for a range of industries, including TCF (Touch Screen panels), polymers, structural composites, rubber goods, and cathode materials for li-ion batteries. Modifiers for aluminum, concrete, paints and other materials are also under development.
References
- ↑ "Low-cost scalable production and applications of single-walled carbon nanotubes".
- ↑ "TUBALL™ pricing" (PDF).
- ↑ "OCSiAl announces new technology for SWCNT mass production".
- ↑ "OCSiAl Group Receives Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for Its Game-Changing Carbon Nanotube Production Process".
- ↑ "Intertek certificate TUBALL™" (PDF).