Many nanomaterial companies focus on a single material or limited set of commercial, off-the-shelf materials in an attempt to support a customer’s goal of creating a new product or system. Cerion knows that these nanomaterials rarely work as intended and can lead to a frustrating experience of suboptimal performance and integration challenges during a customer’s product development process. Due to quantum effects, materials take on special properties at the nano (< 100 nm) scale that are not seen in their bulk counterparts. Variations in the size and compositions of these nanoparticles can broadly impact these properties and behaviors and can therefore be finely tuned and harnessed to tackle a wide (or even limitless) range of product challenges. With over a decade of experience, we’ve demonstrated consistently that for nanomaterials to be effective, they must be purposefully designed to be as unique and distinct as the product or system they will be incorporated into. For this reason, our goal is to provide customers with access to the exact material specifications they need to maximize the material’s performance and resolve their product integration challenges. We specialize in a broad class of inorganic nanomaterials spanning metals, metal oxides and ceramics – with a wide degree of precision control over the design of the nanoparticle’s size and technical attributes. This specialization is further extended to include unique compositions such as alloys, core / shells and doped nanoparticles. Below is a partial list of the metal, metal oxide and ceramic nanomaterials we work with: Aluminum oxide (Al2O3); Antimony oxide (Sb2O3); Barium titanate (BaTiO3); Cerium dioxide (CeO2, ceria, cerium(IV) oxide, ceric oxide, ceric dioxide, cerium oxide or cerium dioxide); Cobalt oxide (Co3O4, cobalt(II,III) oxide); Copper (Cu); Gold (Au); Indium oxide (In2O3); Iridium (Ir, Iridium Alternatives); Iridium oxide (IrO2); Iron oxide (Fe3O4, iron(II,III) oxide, magnetite, Fe2O3, iron(III) oxide-hydroxide, FeOOH, iron oxyhydroxide); Lithium oxide (Li2O, Lithia); Nickel (Ni); Nickel oxide (NiO); Niobium oxide (Niobium pentoxide, columbium oxide, Nb2O5); Palladium (Pd); Platinum (Pt); Platinum dioxide (PtO2); Silica (SiO2, silicon dioxide); Silver (Ag); Silver chloride (AgCl); Titanium dioxide (titanium(IV) oxide or titania, TiO2, anatase); Tin oxide (SnO2); Yttrium oxide (Y2O3, Yttria); Zinc oxide (ZnO); Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2, zirconia); and more…
