COMPONENT AND DEVICE PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

Canatu has developed a new component manufacturing method which allows direct dry printing (DDP) of Nanotube and NanoBud™ films on any substrate material even at room temperature.

The method is also more simple, and hence, less costly than competing techniques, drastically reducing the number of steps to make deposits and increasing the quality and performance of the final products.

A comparison of the "traditional" and our new DDP technology is shown below

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

 

The combination of Canatu's unique patent pending synthesis method, which produces clean, unbundled, high crystallinity Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon NanoBuds™ directly in the gas phase, and Canatu's distinctive patent pending Direct Dry Printing™ method, which allows homogenous or patterned deposition on any substrate at room temperature and pressure, results in a simple, scalable, one-step, low cost component manufacturing process.

Unlike traditional batch methods which start with nanotube powders and require multiple, complex and expensive processing steps to achive deposites, Canatu's methods start with better material and maintains these material qualities on the substrate. No material degrading acid treatments, sonification, surfactants or functionalizations are required. With this method, a wide variety of high performance components can be easily produced in an rapid, economical and environmentally sound proceedure.