The New Steel? Enabling the Carbon Nanomaterials Revolution: Markets, Metrology, Safety, and Scale-up

Adding nanostructured forms of carbon to many host materials can dramatically enhance the resulting composite mechanical, thermal, and electronic properties.  While this potential has been recognized for some time, the commercial development of carbon nanomaterial composites has been slow.  Among the reasons for this delay, the most significant are: 1) technical challenges in the cost-effective manufacture and quality control of the raw nanomaterial; 2) difficulties in integrating carbon nanomaterials effectively into composites; and 3) uncertainty over potential environmental health and safety (EH&S) and associated regulatory issues. This two-day workshop is being held under the auspices of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Signature Initiative on Sustainable Nanomanufacturing, and will support NIST's broad-based effort to identify technical challenges to the commercial development of high-performance, carbon-based nanomaterials. 

Workshop Report

Presentations:

• Perspective of a Start-up that has moved thru Scale-up into Commercialization - David Arthur
• Aerospace Structural Materials Certification - David Furdek
• Manufacturing Process for Carbon Nanostructure Infused Fibers to Fabricate Multifunctional Composites - Tushar Shah
• CNT composites for high-performance structural applications: Development, Measurement, and Scale-up - Larry Carlson
• Multifunctional Carbon Nanomaterials - Nolan Nicholas
• Carbon Nanostructures for Energy Storage - Bingqing Wei
• Carbon Nanotube Metrology for Science and Manufacturing - John Hart
• Nanotechnology - too small to see, too big to ignore - Michael Valenti
• 2011 NNI Environment, Health, and Safety Research Strategy - Treye Thomas
• Aciular Nanoparticles - Metrology Needs for Product Stewardship and Nanocomposite Performance - Lee Silverman
• Which material properties and features determine the biological response to carbon nanotubes? - Bob Hurt
• EPA Approach to Regulating Carbon Nanomaterials - Zofia Kosim
• Some Key Elements for Nanomaterial Exposure Assessment and Management to Advance Sustainable Manufacturing - Mark Hoover
• The Advanced Energy Consortium - John Ullo