Who we are
Our history
We are a technical consultancy specialised in supporting nanomaterials application development, innovation and commercialisation. We are an independent business with a team of experts with PhDs in science and engineering. We have more than 15 years of experience in supporting clients in nanomaterials application development, innovation and commercialisation in areas including energy, transport, construction, environmental, biomedical and digital.
Community development platform and virtual exhibition nanoMATexpo has been developed and maintained by Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd and supported by a sister company CNT Innovation.
The Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology has been established, as a nanomaterials specialised consultancy, in 2009 in Cambridge, UK and CNT innovation, as an innovation management specialised consultancy, ten years later in 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.
Dr Bojan Boskovic, a founder of both companies, has more than 25 years of experience in carbon nanomaterials synthesis, production scale-up, application development and commercialisation from industry and academia in the UK and Europe. He worked for University of Cambridge, Morgan Advanced Materials, Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems and Nanocyl before starting the Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd in 2009 and opening a sister company CNT Innovation ten years later in 2019 in Brussels.
In 2012 the first NCEM (Nano Carbon Enhanced Materials) consortium led by Dr Boskovic has been launched by the CfBI (Centre for Business Innovation). This private member driven consortium had been running for seven series with 5 meetings in each series and attracted members from leading multinational organisations such as AIRBUS, GE, Rolls Roice, Schnider Electric, BOSCH, THALES, National Grid, Henkel and Prysmian. The consortium is now preparing for its 8th services (NCEM-8) refocused as Novel Concepts for Energy Materials.
Our first European grant funded project UltraWire started in 2013 and ended in 2016 was about nanocarbon copper composites for electrical transmission and we used the NCEM consortium to harvest ideas about industrial challenges and build the core of the consortium. The project featured on the BBC News (Click programme) and has been used as seed for starting our first community that continued to be active after the project ended with annual workshops, newsletter and virtual exhibition. Since then, we helped more than 15 projects getting public grants from EU (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe) and UK (Innovate UK) with more 150 partner organisations and more than 80 million EUR received in funding.
In 2019 a sister company CNT Innovation has been setup in Brussels
to support closer relationship with Europe and European Commission for our customers and community members and it is a partner in the Horizon Europe project 3D-BRICKS about novel electronic devices based on carbon nanotubes and DNA.
Our first virtual exhibition has been developed in 2021 to help partners of the GRAPOHOSITE project during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in 2021 to promote their products and services and support exploitation and dissemination of the project results and development of the community. Since then, we keep developing more and more communities supported by virtual exhibitions related to thematics ranging from energy, transport, environmental to biomedical.
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