SkyNano LLC is clean energy tech start-up structured around utilizing carbon emissions as chemical feedstock to manufacture high value functional materials. Advanced carbon additives are supermaterials with important mechanical, thermal, and electronic properties but are avaiable only at very high cost. Anchored in technology developed at Vanderbilt University that addresses both cost and scaleability issues, the SkyNano objective is to achieve a low cost manufacturing technique of high value carbon materials, using as direct inputsonly inexpensive materials, electricity and carbon dioxide. The effort is to achieve commercial viability to carbon conversion technologies by use of high-value secondary material produced from greenhouse gas inputs. Anchored in electrochemistry rather than solely catalysis permits a highly efficient process to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into useful functional nanomaterials.
