Michael Natan Executive Director, New Business Group Cabot Corporation Title: Nanotechnology at Cabot: Success Stories On The One-Gram to Million-Ton Scale August 28th, 2012 @ 10:30am BRK, ROOM 2001 Bio: Cabot Corporation, Mountain View, CA / Billerica, MA; 2012 - present Executive Director, New Business Group; 2010 - 2011 Executive Director, Cabot Security Materials Inc. Oxonica plc / Oxonica Inc. / Oxonica Materials Inc.,Oxford, UK / Mountain View, CA; 2008 - 2010 CEO, Oxonica Materials Inc.; 2006 - 2008 President, Oxonica, Inc. Nanoplex Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA; 2002 - 2006 Chief Executive Officer, President and co-founder SurroMed, Inc., Menlo Park, CA; 2002 - 2004 Vice President, Business Development; 2000 - 2001 Chief Technical Officer The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; 1999 Professor, Dept. of Chemistry; 1997 - 1999 Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry; 1991 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry Education: B.S. Chemistry, Yale U., 1978-1981; Ph.D. Chemistry, MIT, 1981-1986; Postdoc, Northwestern U., 1987-1991 Abstract: Cabot Corporation, with annual revenues in excess of $3 billion, is the world's largest pure-play nanotechnology company. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that Cabot has been selling nanomaterials for over 100 years! This talk will provide an introduction to the company, highlighting its core competency in the design, synthesis, and commercial manufacture of nanoparticles, along with a quick survey of the types of materials produced. The talk will then focus on two specific types of particles: carbon black, an organic nanoparticle manufactured on the ton scale, and silica-encapsulated, adsorbate-coated Au nanoparticles, an inorganic nanoparticle manufactured on the gram scale. For each, the talk will describe how the particles are made, how/why they are used, how properties are optimized, and current opportunities/challenges. Jaime Turner Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University 1205 West State STreet West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057 (765) 494-3509 jjturner@purdue.edu