Founded 2009 | Brands TUBALL™ Type of business Private | |
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Industry Materials, Nanotechnology Number of locations Palo Alto, California, USANovosibirsk, RussiaSeoul, South KoreaLondon, United KingdomBerlin, GermanyColumbus, Ohio, USA Key people Yuriy Koropachinskiy, Oleg Kirillov, Mikhail Predtechenskiy, Yuri Zelvenskiy Products SWCNT and SWCNT-based industrial modifiers | ||
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.