BNNT, LLC has been established to manufacture Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) for scientific investigations, commercial product R&D, and commercial products. Key staff members include the developers who invented the new processes. Synthesis technologies licensed by BNNT, LLC, were developed jointly by NASAs Langley Research Center, the U. S. Department of Energys Jefferson Lab (managed and operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC), and the National Institute of Aerospace, a non-profit research and graduate education institute formed by a consortium of major universities that serves as a strategic partner of NASA and the aerospace community.