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Graphene Technology: The Nanomaterials Road Ahead
Stephen R.Waite and Soroush Nazarpour
A new paradigm is emerging for advanced nanomaterials and their use in commercial products. We call it “molecular precision manufacturing” (MPM), and it is evolving as a consequence of the need to develop new tools, new standards, new protocols, and new processes (TSPPs) to foster the commercialization of nanomaterials.
Nanomaterials possess extraordinary properties, but harnessing these properties for use in commercial products is challenging.The emergingMPMparadigm is required in order to realize the tremendous commercial potential of advanced nanomaterials – both 2D and 3D – discovered over the past 25 years.
TheTSPPs associated withMPMhave been in development for several decades. They combine activities that are critical to the use of advanced nanomaterials in products and applications: 2Dmaterials, such as graphene, molybdenumdisulfide, and boron nitride; and 3D nanomaterials, such as single-wall and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Additionally, technologies have been developed to functionalize these advanced 2D and 3D nanomaterials to enhance their properties for use in commercial products.We are at an early stage in the evolution of functionalized advanced 2D and 3D nanomaterials, but the research done thus far is encouraging.