Startup Company Profile
Hybrid Plastics
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18237 Mount Baldy Cir |
Employees: 30 |
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Hybrid Plastics™ invented and commercialized the first new class of chemicals to be developed in 50 years. The hybrid nanochemicals are marketed under the trade name POSS®. POSS marries the beneficial properties of plastics with those of ceramics and they dramatically improve strength, heat resistance and weight, as well as many of the other desirable properties that have made plastics the material of choice in our modern society. POSS are derived directly from silanes/sand/silica, the most abundant natural resources. POSS are truly nanoscopic with an average diameter of 1.5 nm and are 100% recyclable and are competitively priced with traditional feedstocks. Commercial insertion of into products is simple and does not require alteration of existing manufacturing protocols. POSS was hailed by R&D magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products in 2000. POSS was recognized by a 2005 Presidential level determination as being strategically important to the Department of Defense and economic interest of the United States.
Since hybrid nanochemicals are also biocompatible, they push the technology into new organic areas, such as soluble yet biologically inert delivery vehicles for pharmaceuticals and biocompatible prosthetics and other medical devices.
POSS® Technology is derived from a continually evolving class of compounds closely related to silicones through both composition and a shared system of nomenclature. POSS® chemical technology has two unique features (1) the chemical composition is a hybrid, intermediate (RSiO1.5) between that of silica (SiO2) and silicone (R2SiO) and (2) POSS® molecules are physically large with respect to polymer dimensions and nearly equivalent in size to most polymer segments and coils.
Hybrid Plastics™ was established in 1998 tofulfill the demand for a new generation of lighter-weight, higher-performance polymeric materials. Using a new chemical feedstock based on Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS®); the company provides a variety of property enhancements to existing resin systems. POSS® is the only hybrid and nanostructured chemical feedstock developed to date. Because of itschemical nature, POSS® technology is easily incorporated into common plastics via co-polymerization or blending, requiring little or no alteration to existing manufacturing processes. POSS® radically upgrades the thermal and physical properties of most plastics.
