[BNC-all] Michael Natan Seminar Today at 10:30am in BRK 2001

[Turner, Jaime J]

Michael Natan

Executive Director, New Business Group

Cabot Corporation

Title: Nanotechnology at Cabot: Success Stories On The One-Gram to Million-Ton Scale



August 28th, 2012 @ 10:30am

BRK, ROOM 2001


Bio: Cabot Corporation, Mountain View, CA / Billerica, MA;  2012 - present  Executive Director, New Business Group; 2010 - 2011 Executive Director, Cabot Security Materials Inc.

Oxonica plc / Oxonica Inc. / Oxonica Materials Inc.,Oxford, UK / Mountain View, CA;  2008 - 2010  CEO, Oxonica Materials Inc.; 2006 - 2008  President, Oxonica, Inc.

Nanoplex Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA;  2002 - 2006  Chief Executive Officer, President and co-founder

SurroMed, Inc., Menlo Park, CA;    2002 - 2004    Vice President, Business Development;  2000 - 2001    Chief Technical Officer

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;    1999  Professor, Dept. of Chemistry; 1997 - 1999 Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry;        1991 - 1997   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry

 Education:  B.S. Chemistry, Yale U., 1978-1981;  Ph.D. Chemistry, MIT, 1981-1986; Postdoc, Northwestern U., 1987-1991



Abstract: Cabot Corporation, with annual revenues in excess of $3 billion, is the world's largest pure-play nanotechnology company.  Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that Cabot has been selling nanomaterials for over 100 years!  This talk will provide an introduction to the company, highlighting its core competency in the design, synthesis, and commercial manufacture of nanoparticles, along with a quick survey of the types of materials produced.  The talk will then focus on two specific types of particles:  carbon black, an organic nanoparticle manufactured on the ton scale, and silica-encapsulated, adsorbate-coated Au nanoparticles, an inorganic nanoparticle manufactured on the gram scale.  For each, the talk will describe how the particles are made, how/why they are used, how properties are optimized, and current opportunities/challenges.



Jaime Turner
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Purdue University
1205 West State STreet
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057
(765) 494-3509
jjturner at purdue.edu


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