From Idea to Material to Business

Type: White Papers

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Abstract:

This presentat is by Dr. Steven Reznek, former R&D Vice President for Cabot Corporation. It covers the following questions:

What are the opportunities for creating new performance chemical products, based upon ultra-fine or nano-scale particle size? Insight into this question comes from an understanding of three different issues:
What are the costs and what are market values of fine particle materials?
Will the various parts of value chain assign enough priority to use fine particles to make new materials and then use these new materials in fabricated products?
What capabilities, other than cost and performance, must a particle producer demonstrate to actually achieve sales?

According to Dr. Reznek, all too frequently, the people in the fine particle field have been technical and focused solely on particle characteristics. And all too frequently, the promise of new wonder materials has failed to materialize. This paper is a discussion of all three issues, outlining the important aspects of each that will ultimately determine if new fine particle products will be successful and who will realize that success.

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