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Startup from Minas Gerais of Nanotechnology and Innovation in Niobium will launch products with advanced materials for non-metallic purposes, beneficial to man and the environment
This year, the Minas Gerais startup Nanonib – Nanotecnologia e Inovação em Nióbio starts marketing innovative solutions, developed based on materials containing niobium with high added value compared to competing products and benefits for both man and the environment. Nanobib developed and invested in the first “nanoindustry” – an industrial unit for processing niobium nanomaterial, in Belo Horizonte, which demands a low production cost.
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The startup chose Minas Gerais for the innovation environment in the capital of Minas Gerais and for its proximity to Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM), responsible for 80% of the world niobium market and located in the State.
The startup was created in 2019 in partnership with a group of private investors and incorporates the success of scientific and technological studies of the various applications of niobium nanomaterials by research partners and professors at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). According to a partner at Nanonib and Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry at UFMG, Professor Luiz Carlos Oliveira, more than 15 years of research and development of solutions involving niobium for non-metallic purposes have generated unprecedented products, with great added value and with economic and strategic potential for the country. “The company has several patents and research, involving the preparation, application and disruptive solutions based on the niobium platform. Oliveira.
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INNIB41® had positive results in deactivating, cleaning and protecting hands against Sars-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19
Among the first products ever developed by Nanonib and currently undergoing approval by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), is the input that originated INNIB41®, an antiseptic solution with tested and proven efficiency in independent laboratories. The product is the first in the world to use niobium in the composition for this application.
“INNIB41® is now ready to be launched on the market, awaiting the approval of the ingredient by Anvisa and will also be produced in Minas Gerais by Yeva Cosmétiques based in Itaúna”, informs the executive director of Nanonib, Joel Passos. Yeva Cosmétiques was chosen for having successfully participated in the transfer of technology from UFMG, which originated a nanotechnological product for hair loss treatment called Sanctio®.
INNIB41® had positive results in deactivating, cleaning and protecting hands against Sars-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19 and other bacteria and viruses. Nanonib's executive director reveals that the product has demonstrated high efficacy in laboratory studies compared to gel and liquid alcohols, because it has a prolonged residual effect and protects different types of surfaces for up to 24 hours.
Joel Passos also reveals that INNIB41® has undergone tests, mainly dermatological tests, does not have a solvent, such as alcohol, and does not cause adverse or harmful reactions to humans, and can be used in people with sensitive skin such as children, adolescents, the elderly, etc.
Later this year, a teeth whitener with niobium nanomaterials will be launched, which does not use “oxygenated water”, fluoride, preservatives or dyes
Nanonib also foresees the commercialization, later this year, of a teeth whitener with niobium nanomaterials, which does not use hydrogen peroxide (the popular hydrogen peroxide), fluorine, preservatives or dyes. “We are innovating, creating the future in non-metallic niobium and developing a series of technologies and other advanced products based on niobium that will be future active ingredients and or will lead to disruptive solutions in areas such as cosmetics, health and agriculture with surprising results, in addition to not being aggressive to health and the environment”, says Passos.
Nanonib's executive director adds that the novelty and value-generating potential of technologies developed with niobium may be of great strategic and economic interest to the State, bearing in mind that Minas Gerais is the largest producer of niobium in the world.
Global and Brazilian giants CSN and CBMM waste no time, targeting the technological revolution and investing in graphene — the powerful material 200 times stronger than steel!
With an eye on the global technological revolution that is about to happen, if it is not already happening, two global and Brazilian giants, CSN and CBMM, invest in a Singaporean start-up focused on the development of graphene — the powerful flexible material 200 times stronger than steel, thinner than a hair and abundant in Brazil. This revolutionary material will become the next global technological revolution, with Brazil at the forefront!
Inova Ventures, the vehicle for venture capital of CSN, has just purchased an unspecified minority stake in 2DM, a Singaporean startup focused on developing graphene. Brazilian steel giant CSN has started a working group dedicated to graphene at its research center in Volta Redonda. CBMM, the largest global producer of niobium, already made a contribution to the startup in 2019.
Touted as one of the materials of the future, graphene has unique properties such as high resistance and high thermal and electrical conductivity. It can be used, for example, to produce lighter and more efficient batteries or more corrosion-resistant materials.
The objective of the 2DM is to apply the material as an additive to improve various properties of materials for markets such as automotive, electric vehicles, aeronautics, marine, energy storage, defense, electronics, among others.
