美国Hybrid Plastics www.hybridplastics.com
美国加州 Hybrid Plastics公司开发出了一种全新思路的纳米增强剂 POSS。其特点是它能溶于溶剂和树脂中，因而能确保实现分子分散，同时保持低黏度，从而加大了填充量，并且不影响加工流动性。但当温度降至 POSS的熔点以下时，它便立即固化并形成纳米结构起到增强作用。POSS的另一个特点是它的单体或齐聚物都与树脂发生接枝共聚，使接枝物玻璃化温度提高到树脂本身的分解温度以上，而接枝产物的分解温度又比树脂提高了 40～100 ℃，这使它高温下仍保持了良好的加工流动性。该公司宣称，POSS 是近 50 年来开发出的第 1 种全新思路的化学产品，它具有纳米粘土的优点，却没有纳米粘土的缺点。

In the early 1990s, a scientific team under the direction of Dr. Joseph Lichtenhan at Edwards Air Force Base in California invented the first new class of chemical feedstocks to be developed in 50 years - Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane or POSS® as it’s known. In 1998, Dr. Lichtenhan and his team spun this POSS® technology out of the Air Force Research Laboratory and founded Hybrid Plastics®. Thus began the process of the Company converting from a small R&D facility to a true manufacturing company. In 2004 the Company took its next major step and relocated from California to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It acquired a 15 acre manufacturing site and developed an association with one of the best polymers schools in the United States - the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymers and High Performance Materials - which is also located in Hattiesburg.

Today Hybrid Plastics® is one of the top 10 nanotechnology companies in the United States. It’s dedicated staff of scientists and engineers have received awards naming their customer service as unparalleled in the global high performance fillers market. Hybrid Plastics® is unique among nanotech companies because it actually manufactures its nano-products on a multi-ton scale at its 35,000 sq. ft. facility. The Company sells worldwide with 40% of its sales overseas.

Nanotechnology holds the promise of being the science of the 21st Century. Indeed, the National Science and Technology Council has stated "Nanotechnology could impact the production of virtually every human-made object…” POSS® nanoscopic chemicals provide unique opportunities to create revolutionary material combinations through a melding of the desirable properties of ceramics and polymers at the 1 nm length scale. These new combinations enable the circumvention of classic material performance trade-offs by exploiting the synergy and properties that only occur between materials at the nanoscale. They release no VOCs and, thereby, produce no odor or air pollution, while offering easy incorporation into existing manufacturing protocols. These elegant chemicals also push the technology into new applications such as soluble yet biologically inert delivery vehicles for pharmaceuticals and medical applications such as biocompatible prosthetics