In collaboration with their colleagues from the University of Western Australia UWA, the group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University, led by Prof. Jeffrey Gordon, succeeded in producing significant quantities of spherical hollow structures in a "nano-onion" configuration with a boron-nitride (BN) composition
Next to the system for the production of material in the shape of nano onions, the result of their development
The American space agency NASA is showing interest in nano-onion shaped lubricants, the result of the development of researchers from the Blaustein Desert Research Institute, and is examining examples of these structures with the intention of using them in experiments with satellites. In collaboration with their colleagues from the University of Western Australia UWA, the group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University, led by Prof. Jeffrey Gordon, succeeded in producing significant quantities of spherical hollow structures in a "nano-onion" configuration with a boron-nitride (BN) composition.
The nanometer size of the particles, less than a thousandth of the diameter of a hair, together with the hollow crystalline structure and the chemical properties of BN, make them lubricants with exceptional properties for applications under conditions of high temperatures and pressures.
The production of significant quantities of these materials was a dream until the researchers of the Swiss Institute for Energy and Environmental Research of Arid Regions went into action. Prof. Gordon from the Yarsin Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics at the Swiss Institute, and Prof. Hui Tong Chua from the Department of Chemical Engineering at UWA succeeded in producing significant amounts of "nano-onion" BN in a fast and safe one-step process; A process that does not involve toxic substances and large quantities of the substance can be produced from it.
An initial application for the protection of the patent rights was submitted these days, and at the same time an agreement was signed with Innovyz Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Pty Ltd from Adelaide, Australia, granting its subsidiary, Ablano, rights to purchase the patent.
An article about the development was published last year in the journal Nano Research.
