Materials That Power Our World™
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts, Nano-C is a leading developer of nanostructured carbon, electronic materials, speciality chemicals. Through its expertise in chemistry and unique energy-efficient processes, Nano-C enables the creation of smaller, lighter, and more durable devices across the electronics, energy, and semiconductor industries.
Our Drive
Nano-C was founded on a simple but profound insight: that the carbon atom, properly controlled, could change the world. More than two decades later, that insight is becoming reality, and we have expanded these insights beyond carbon — nowhere is that more evident than in the next generation of photovoltaic devices, semiconductor manufacturing, and high-efficiency batteries .
The interface between materials is where efficiency is won or lost. Our team has spent years developing the deep expertise required to engineer that interface precisely, understanding not just the chemistry of our materials, but how they interact with the other layers, additives, and processing conditions of real device stacks. That knowledge doesn't come from a catalog. It comes from working directly alongside the researchers and manufacturers who are building the most advanced solar devices in the world.
When I look at what our interlayer materials have enabled, the efficiency records, the stability benchmarks, the collaborations with leading institutions across multiple continents, I am proud of what this team has built. And I am more energized than ever about what comes next.
We are not a passive supplier. We are partners in your stack.
Viktor Vejins President & CEO, Nano-C
Our History
Nano-C was born out of MIT, where chemical engineer Jack Howard demonstrated in 1991 that fullerenes could be synthesized through a new highly controlled-process. It was a breakthrough that made industrial-scale production of these remarkable molecules possible for the first time. In 2001, Howard founded Nano-C to commercialize the technology, obtaining an exclusive license to the MIT-patented synthesis process and setting out to bring electronic materials to the world.
Over the following two decades, Nano-C's scientists and engineers refined and scaled that process, developing deep expertise in functionalization: the chemical modification of fullerenes and nanotubes. To that core, Nano-C has added a range of novel specialty materials and chemicals that combine to meet the precise and evolving demands of partners across solar energy, semiconductor manufacturing, displays, and electronics. Nano-C’s collaborative model, working closely with customers from early R&D through commercial scale, has defined the company from the start.
Today, Nano-C operates from its facility in Westwood, Massachusetts, with a growing portfolio of products, patents, knowhow, and manufacturing assets. We are proud to be an ISO-9001 Certified Supplier.
The science that Jack Howard pioneered is now at the center of some of the most consequential technology developments of our time. Nano-C intends to stay there.
