High aspect ratio sub-micron and nano-scale
metal filaments
Nanostrands are a unique and revolutionary engineering material. While many nano-structured forms of filamentary carbon, polymers and ceramics exist, only Metal Matrix Composites can deliver the electrical, magnetic, mechanical and chemical properties of a pure metal in a nano-structured filamentary form.
Nanostrands are very long sub-micron diameter filaments of nickel or iron. Diameters have been engineered from 50 nm to 1000 nm. Typical lengths range from tens of microns to tens of millimeters. Typical aspect ratios are in the range of 100:1 to 1000:1.
For over a century nickel has proven its worth as a critical element in many advanced material systems such as: conductivity, catalysis, metalurgy, energy, production, storage, and filtering. Now nickel is available in a form that brings nano-technology solutions to these fields.
100 nanometer diameter nickel nanostrands
50,000x magnification