Technologies

Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper, Non- Polluting Structural Materials

Natural materials made from one of the commonest large molecules on the planet vies with super fibers for structural strength and delivers so cheaply it outcompetes structural steel and concrete on a per pound basis.

Technology Summary

Nano-fibrillated cellulose (NFC), a bio-polymer, derives from all plants & some simple animals. Used with advanced manufacturing processes (principally additive), it represents a sea change in structural materials. With universal distribution it can change the course of civilization & raise life quality for billions.

Consider a substance:

• Harder than rocks
• Strong & tough as steel
• Clear as glass
• Semi-conductive as silica
• Cheaper than wood
• Ubiquitous
• ‘Green’ as grass

With which one can fabricate materials:

• Light as a feather
• Pliable as cotton
• Protective and invisible
• Durable as concrete
• Light-emitting as LCD, including video
• Tunable to admit, focus, or prohibit electromagnetic fields, including light
• With embedded ‘intelligence’
• CHEAPLY!

Various Forms of Cellulose & Nano-cellulose Fabrication

Considerable overlap characterizes performance of recently identified cellulose forms, but that overlap does not extend to price-performance ratios.

While nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) has not received the media attention that nano- crystalline cellulose (NCC) has, NFC has more to offer in immediate market terms, as well as long-term cost benefits. It can replace nearly all structural steel and aluminum, far stronger, environmentally friendly, completely renewable, and at a tiny fraction of the cost. NFC can produce structural elements of almost any size from micro-tools to skyscrapers. NCC cannot.

Images acquired with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The black arrow indicates the boundaries of a nano-fibril (approximately 28 nm in diameter). The white arrows indicate a single elementary cellulose fibril (3.5 nm in diameter)

The Ubiquitous Polymer

New means to utilize our most abundant natural polymer, cellulose, promise on the one hand both to address environmental concerns, and simultaneously to create vast new markets capable of producing higher quality of life (as well as military applications), and on the other hand of providing investors and entrepreneurs of almost any size with unprecedented opportunities.

New Local Fabrication and Unfair Advantages

CELLULISTICS manufacturing processes – many derived from those originally developed for other materials such as carbon fiber - enable CELLULISTICS to fabricate cellulose into structural materials capable of replacing, for starters, the overwhelming majority of all other structural materials. This can occur so rapidly, so locally, and so inexpensively as to constitute, by virtue of a grossly unfair advantage, a threat to virtually all existing building industries. Fortunately, they can adopt the future.

Impact

Freely employed, this Structural Holy Grail can empower billions of people to build whole habitats – as well as new types of tools - never before seen. CHEAPLY, rapidly, & including:

• Self-sufficient, sheltered homes and homesteads, villages, cities, regions

• Natural and restored ecosystems

• H₂O and energy harvesting on massive scale

• Autonomous communications

• “Intelligent” environments, insuring natural, agricultural, and human balance

• Advanced transport & exploration

• Defense from natural and human disasters

• Tools to cheaply build major public works – high-speed rail, global UAV communications, waterways, tunnels, etc.

Addressing quality of life issues in these manners frees enormous human resources to concentrate on:

• Technologies & applications for advanced living & lifestyle improvement
• Biomedical advance
• Research in physical, natural and social sciences
• Music & the Arts
• Sports and Entertainment
• Consilience
• Grass-roots creation of real wealth engenders & empowers entrepreneurial vision & social intercourse.

 Short-term it compares in impact to mass produced steel in the middle of the nineteenth century or ferroconcrete at the beginning of the twentieth. It will literally change the landscape. More importantly, this constitutes real wealth in tangible goods and services at local levels. Longer-term it enables applications not currently possible.

Further Information

Cellulistics has documentation of all stages of development, exhaustive market analysis, additional technical reports on specifically targeted markets, and initial designs. Serious investors may access these.

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