Why Nano-Energy?

We believe that nanotechnology provides our best hope for a new, cleaner and more efficient energy system, one that will form the backbone of our future energy industry.

Nanotechnology is science at the smallest scale, and allows us to manipulate the fundamental building blocks of all matter – atoms. By designing and tweaking materials at this level scientists can create super materials with incredible new chemical, electrical and physical properties – properties never before thought possible.

Nanotechnology is already being used to produce stain-resistant fabrics, odour-eating socks even fire-resistant paints, but its real potential is in the field of energy. By re-engineering the way we generate, store, transmit and use energy at the nano-scale, we will be able to create energy technologies that are far cleaner, more efficient and therefore cheaper, than any of the fossil fuel or alternative energy technologies around today.

And now is the time to invest. Nanotechnology is a relatively new science – the first major breakthroughs took place in the mid 1980’s and since then work has focussed on developing the tools and equipment needed to work at the nano-scale. But now industrial applications are starting to multiply and the industry is set to explode over the next few years. Nano-energy in particular has received little attention to-date but is increasingly talked about as the most significant area for development. We believe that over the next 4-5 years,  the sort of comprehensive nano-energy portfolio we are developing will prove to be exceptionally valuable.