Since I have been confused with the various processes I thought others might be too so following a conversation to clarify things I thought I'd post what I understand.
1. GICAN has successfully fabricated halloysite into nanoporous carbon (fullerenes).
2. There is a fully functioning materials fabrication plant at GICAN (Uni of Newcastle).
![https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/3069/3069457-ca1da9e5d344395d8800acb234873573.jpg](https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/3069/3069457-ca1da9e5d344395d8800acb234873573.jpg)
Nanocarbon fullerene product made from Great White Project halloysite-kaolin
3. GICAN has enhanced this breakthrough with the successful activation of the material with functional additives. Research is happening simultaneously in applications for carbon capture, hydrogen storage, water remediation, batteries & supercapacitors based on these fullerenes.
![https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/3069/3069361-00b3652e03cbccd7b751b0aed2b993ad.jpg](https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/3069/3069361-00b3652e03cbccd7b751b0aed2b993ad.jpg)
4. In the case of CO2 capture there is a demonstration plant being built by Natural Nanotech Pty Ltd at GICAN. Commissioning is expected within six months. NNPL will use this plant to market the technology to end users e.g. coal-fired power plants, cement industry etc.
5. GICAN is developing technologies for carbon capture, and at the same time, the technology to convert the adsorbed CO2 into clean fuels such as methane and methanol.
6. GICAN has also used halloysite-kaolin to successfully synthesise highly crystalline mesoporous C60 with an ordered pore structure and extremely high specific surface area (around 400 square metres per gram), which is showing very high supercapacitance performance.
7. It has also developed halloysite derived nanocarbons which show a high peroxidase activity which may be useful for water treatment including the degradation of organic pollutants.
Nanotech is not the main game for MEP/ADN ATM but the future is exciting.