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4.4. Companies
Rosseter Holdings Limited
Address:
4 Nikiforou Lytra
P.O. Box 57220
3310 Limassol
CYPRUS
General Contacts: Phone: +357 255 91600
Fax: +357 255 91888
Mobile phone: +357 994 60171
E-mail: contact@e-nanoscience.com
Website: http://www.e-nanoscience.com/
Description:
Rosseter Holdings Limited is a company that specialises in
large-scale production of carbon nanotubes (SWNTs and
MWNTs) and related materials (nanohorns, onions.). Rosseter
holdings Limited was established in 1998 by Mrs M.
Xenophontos-Ioannou and Dr. Vladislav Ryzhkov and has now 5
employees.
The technology is based on the decomposition of hydrocarbons
driven by a low-voltage contact auto-regulated arc-discharge in
aromatic-based hydrocarbon liquids. It permits the production of
nanotube deposits with yields of 2-3 g/min per pair of electrodes
with a very low specific consumption of electric energy of 20-100
kW-hour per 1 kg of deposit produced. Current production is
100-200 g/day and the price is around 20-25 US$/g.
Modifying the regimes allows Rosseter to change composition of
the deposits dramatically. At the moment the company has
mainly developed 5 different raw carbon nanoproducts. R&D
activities are focused on methods and innovative processes
of production as well as the development of the product for
use in certain applications like electron emission, hydrogen
absorption, nanocomposites, electronic devices, fuel
Cells, etc. For example, Rosseter has set up a partnership with
an unnamed Taiwanese company for the manufacture of carbon
nanotubes for use in flat panel displays and lithium batteries.
The firm has received $1.3 million in investments since the
founding in 1998, of this, $700,000 came from Rosseter
employees. And, although specific sales figures are unknown,
Rosseter did sell 700 grams of carbon nanotubes in 2001 at $20
per gram, which indicates minimum revenue of $14,000.
In addition to selling nanotubes and licensing, Rosseter would
like to co-develop products that incorporate nanotubes. The
company expects to go public in Europe by the year 2006.
Contact: • Dr. David Tománek, Chairman (tomanek@enanoscience.com).
Tomanek has written more than 150
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