New Materials Startups

Nactarome develops natural flavour, taste, and colour solutions for the food and beverage industry, formed by combining multiple European ingredient companies with heritage dating to the 1800s. It serves customers across categories including bakery, confectionery, beverages, savoury snacks, and health & wellbeing, operating across Italy, France, the UK, Spain, and other European markets.

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NAMé Recycling collects, sorts, washes, and shreds plastic waste in West Africa, exporting recycled plastic flakes to international markets for transformation into new products. The company operates a profitable recycling business serving communities across the region according to international standards.

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Nanize develops polysilazane-based nanotechnology coatings for industrial and consumer applications, serving markets from cookware to electronics and automotive. The company offers sustainable, rapidly-curing coating solutions as alternatives to PFAS-containing products.

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Nano Frontier Technology develops advanced functional nanomaterials and carbon nanotube dispersions for industrial applications. The company provides product development, contract processing, and intellectual property licensing through its microfabrication and dispersion technologies.

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Korea Nano OT (한국나노오트) is a South Korean company that develops nanotechnology-based solutions, positioning its work around sustainable and innovative technology.

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Nanosummit develops industrial-scale technology to uniformly disperse carbon nanotubes (CNT) and other carbon-based nanomaterials at low cost, addressing CNT aggregation problems. Its dispersion technology enables CNT-based coatings and composites used in products such as heat-generating sheets, conductive fibers, and cesium-adsorbing filters.

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Nano-C develops and manufactures engineered nanostructured carbon materials for high-performance applications, including perovskite and thin-film solar, advanced semiconductor lithography, and EV batteries. It offers end-to-end process ownership from development through full-scale production, serving customers with application-specific material formulations.

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Nano-Join is a German company developing nanotechnology-based joining and interconnection materials for microelectronics, targeting applications in micropackaging and thermal management. It works with industrial partners in semiconductor and advanced materials sectors.

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Nanobionic makes a coating of infrared-emitting minerals that is applied to fabrics, foams, leathers and textiles to reflect body heat back to the wearer, intended to promote local blood flow, recovery, athletic performance and sleep. It sells the technology as coatings and membranes for use in apparel, bedding, footwear, medical and military products.

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Nano Catalytics develops patent-pending nano and micro particles that, when activated by radio frequency, release catalysts to trigger polymerization on demand, allowing manufacturers to cure adhesives and parts without heating the entire object. Sold as ready-to-use additives to formulators, the technology currently targets the adhesives market and is aimed at chemical and manufacturing applications.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[{"full_name": "Adam Malofsky", "title": "CEO"}, {"full_name": "Steve Levin", "title": "COO"}]

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NANOEGG is a pharmaceutical and cosmetics development company that conducts drug research and development, produces non-pharmaceutical health products and cosmetics, and sells pharmaceutical bases and cosmetic raw materials. The company serves pharmaceutical manufacturers, cosmetics brands, and health product developers in Japan.

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Sydrogen Energy develops and manufactures fuel cell components, including the SydroDIAMOND corrosion-resistant carbon coating for metallic bipolar plates in PEM hydrogen fuel cells, and offers turnkey systems to integrate or retrofit hydrogen power generation. Its applications target maritime, EV charging stations, and commercial vehicles.

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Nanoflexion is a medtech spin-off developing an electrospun nanofiber surgical patch that acts as a biodegradable, biocompatible barrier to prevent anastomotic leakage and postoperative adhesions after colorectal and gastrointestinal surgery. The patch is applied during surgery without extra tools and can serve as a local drug delivery system, targeting surgical care in Europe.

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NANOGAP develops metal molecule (M-M) technology — sub-nanometer clusters of a few metal atoms used as thermo-, photo-, and electro-catalysts for the chemical, energy, and process industries. Its catalysts, including low-cost copper and silver alternatives to platinum-group metals, target applications such as clean hydrogen production, CO2 valorization, ammonia synthesis, and water purification.

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NanoInGreen uses microbial fermentation with a platform of over 150 microorganism strains as biofactories to produce bioavailable, GRAS-status, GMO-free ingredients for the food industry, such as a natural food preservative and a highly absorbable iron mineral. It serves food companies looking to enhance formulations, replace existing ingredients, or develop new nutritional products.

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Nanoionix develops EcoCer, a class of permanent, self-disinfecting ceramic materials and coatings that continuously inactivate bacteria, viruses, fungi, and algae without leaching into the environment. The coatings can be applied to metal, plastic, glass, ceramic, textile, wood, and paper during manufacturing or as an aftermarket treatment.

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Nanolumi is a science and technology company that develops nanomaterial-based innovations, operating internationally from a base in Singapore. Its areas of work include fuel integrity applications.

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Nanom uses a patented top-down accelerator technology to convert micron-scale materials into controlled nanoparticles engineered for conductivity, porosity, and energy efficiency, used in batteries, electronics, and other products. Its chemical-free process also reuses battery and industrial waste to produce high-value nanomaterials for the energy storage and manufacturing sectors.

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MEGA Nanodots are magnetic collectible spheres that can be manipulated into various forms and shapes for desktop art, office games, and kinetic physics demonstrations. The product combines traditional marble collectibles with magnetic properties.

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Nanomakers designs, produces, and sells industrial-scale patented silicon-based nanopowders, including silicon carbide (SiC) for reinforcing materials such as elastomers, polymers, ceramics, and metals, and silicon (Si) powders to increase the energy density of anodes in lithium-ion batteries. It serves the materials and battery industries using a laser pyrolysis technology licensed from the French CEA.

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An AI platform for materials science and nanotechnology that provides property prediction, synthesis guidance, and research briefings for R&D teams working with nanomaterials and advanced matter. The site also publishes practical guides and Q&A explaining product workflows and usage.

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NanoPhos develops and manufactures nanotechnology-based materials and coatings for construction and marine applications, including self-cleaning, antistatic, and protective surface products for interior and exterior surfaces. Its offerings target the building sector and the yachting/marine and industrial markets.

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NANOPLUME develops bio-based aerogel materials used as high-performance thermal insulation, serving cold chain packaging and trucking companies as well as construction firms. Its materials aim to improve energy efficiency, space efficiency, and circularity across industries.

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Nanordica Medical develops the Nanordica Advanced Antibacterial Wound Dressing, a sterile single-use dressing made of natural silk nanofibers with antibacterial nanoparticles (Premotiv technology) that prevents infection and promotes healing of chronic and infected wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers. The Estonian medtech company, a spin-off of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, serves wound-care and clinical settings.

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