• Carbon nanotubes (CNT) as nano enhancer have several powerful potentially applications in nano-composites to address urgent challenges of the society, such as efficient conversion of especially renewable energy sources, efficient use of energy and other resources (lightweight materials, catalysis,...) and efficient energy storage (batteries, supercaps).
• The Germany based and partly governmental funded Innovation Alliance “Inno.CNT” (www.inno-cnt.de) addresses technical and application issues of CNT within currently 27 projects and 90 partners, including the parallel consideration of safety issues in two projects.
• The application fields of Inno.CNT include lightweight construction, mobility, energy, electronics.
• The successful use of CNT especially for lightweight construction will be highlighted based on the Solar Impulse (www.solar-impulse.com) project.

• Tubular nanofiller Halloysite
• Processing
• Flame retardancy measurement by cone calorimeter
• ATH and MDH substitution?

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• Small but mighty, however, it is necessary to use with other additives to achieve desired properties
• Combination of organoclay with other additives, FR, Barrier, etc
• Safe handling and easy handling

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• In a past decade a fast pace of carbon nanotube commercialisation has seen all major manufacturers scaling up their production facilities from kilograms to hundreds of tonnes per year with a number of applications constantly expanding.
• It is predicted that the commercialisation of graphene might follow the same route as carbon nanotubes in the coming decade.
• One of the main markets for carbon nanotubes have been their use as enhancers in plastic materials to improve electrical, mechanical and thermal properties and to add functionality and provide sensing ability.
• The carbon nanotube commercialisation route from the pioneering research results and the first patents to the first applications and the scale-up will be presented with the special focus on application in enhancing plastic materials. The history of the carbon nanotube manufacturing scale-up together with the key manufactures and their position on the market will be discussed.
• Similarities and differences between carbon nanotube and graphene production process and application in enhancing plastic materials will be also discussed with the aim to make possible predictions about graphene manufacturing scale-up and application in the future.

• Analysis of issues related to production of high performance polymer based composites
• An alternative approach – making composites from vegetable waste streams
• Overview of potential applications for the new materials

• What is a patent and the costs
• The European Patent 
• Patenting trends in Nanotech 
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• General overview of the EU regulatory landscape for nanotechnologies
• The impact of REACH and the CLP Regulations
• Exposure scenarios as part of Chemical Safety Reports – the key to determine environmental impact

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