NanoBuds have been shown to be extremely efficient electron field emitters and have excellent conductive properties with wide ranging mechanical, electrical and optical applicaitions. In this newly discovered material, fullerene molecules are attached to the outside surface of carbon nanotubes, just like buds on the branch of a tree - hence the name - and can be made in a simple one-step, environmentaly friendly, process.


Since Canatu's raw materials are just carbon and iron and the manufacturing process operates at atmospheric pressure, production cost are low. Moreover, waste products from other industrial processes, such as CO, can be used to produce Canatu's carbon nanomaterials, making it a very environmentally friendly technology.

Canatu has pending patent applications covering, for instance:
- novel Carbon Nanotube and NanoBud production methods,
- novel wet and dry separation and patterned deposition methods for high aspect ratio molecules such as DNA, CNTs and NanoBuds,
- the new NanoBud material and NanoBud applications in, for instance electronics and energy storage and,
- new methods for characterizing tubular nanomaterials.