Insights from GE path to commercialization of new nanomaterials

From Next Big Future:

MIT Technology Review - several of the General Electric's nanomaterials are ready for commercialization, and GE is focusing on manufacturing and processing.

"Ideally, you just tweak the existing system to make it better," says Ruud. This worked for one of the nanotechnologies in the company's portfolio, a superhydrophobic coating that sheds water very well and will improve the efficiency of steam-turbine blades. When investigating ways of making these coatings over large areas, the GE researchers found that they could use the same high-temperature spray process they use to make other coatings, just by making a few relatively simple changes....MORE