Buildings account for 40 percent of global energy demand and a third of the world's greenhouse emissions today. There is a growing movement around the world to use natural and biological building materials to reduce this environmental impact.

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Sp2nano is fully dedicated to this proposition. Our principle goal is to design,manufacture and commercialize the materials to accomplish this objective.

 

Our initial product is Superwood which fulfills 2 of our goals: first to replace environment damaging materials with clean technology; and second to reduce the harvesting of trees by building our materials with forest and agricultural waste, thereby preventing waste from decomposing releasing greenhouse gas

 

The reinforcement of Superwood with graphene, nano cellulose and cellulose fibers will provide high end properties for replacing building material, as well as some metals and concrete.

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A critical issue to fuller utilization of this technology is based on lignin. The lignin in use today has inferior mechanical and structural properties caused by the fractionization of lignin during the separation from cellulose. Recent developments with deep eutectic solvents are now capable of separating unfractionated lignin as illustrated at Washington State University on wheat stalk biomas. Lignin could also be the key to environmental and sustainable concrete and asphalt