DETROIT – nanoScience Engineering Corporation announced Tuesday that it has exclusively licensed technology from Wayne State University to manufacture advanced nano-scale filler to enhance the performance of plastics and rubber used in the automotive and food packaging industries.
The WSU technology uses supercritical carbon dioxide, an environmentally friendly, reusable solvent, for producing exfoliated and custom-coated fillers dispersible in a polymer matrix. This method of production will make better and less expensive polymer nanocomposites with improved strength, thermal stability, and reduced permeability.
Professors Esin Gulari, Charles W. Manke, Gulay Serhatkulu, and Rangaramanujam Kannan, of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department in WSU?s College of Engineering developed this technology using supercritical fluids.
nSEC was founded by David Burnett, former CEO of Prizmalite Industries, James Braddock Sr., former senior automotive purchasing executive and Professor Esin Gulari, co-inventor of the patents in the nSEC portfolio. nSEC plans to locate their operations in Detroit.
?The work of nSEC is another example of how WSU researchers are taking the next step from innovation to implementation,?? said WSU Vice President for Research John Oliver. ?They care about how their discoveries will impact industry and society.?
