Is Hardware the New Software? Creating the Hightech Innovations that will Transform our Lives (David Brown Technology Stream)

Is hardware the new Software?

Creating the Innovations that will change our lives

September 2016

David Brown,CEO, BroadBit Batteries

Who the Hell and I?

PhD Environmental Engineering (Air Quality Management)

MSc Aerospace Engineering (Computation Physics)

BSE Aerospace Engineering (Fluid Dynamics and Propulsion)

Fulbright Fellow (Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry)

Over 150 patents and applications

Over 150 scientific and engineering publications

Manager of two physics labs (Aerosol Physics & Nanomaterial Physics)

Twice nominated for European Inventor of the Year

Founder and founding CEO of 6 companies in:

Energy, Comp. Physics, Nanotech & Electronics, Pharmaceuticals, Optics

ParticleStreamTechnologies

ParticleStreamTechnologies

SWCheap & Fast

Low CapExSmall general teamsOpen Source, API

Easy to ScaleNo logistics“[ctrl]c”

Very ProfitableHigh marginsLow marginal costs

Low Barrier to Entry

What investors & startups all “know”

HWExpensive & Slow

High CapExLarge specialized teamsClosed, proprietary, far away

Hard to ScaleLots of supply/distributionTooling and manufacturing

Not Very ProfitableLow marginsHigh marginal costs

High Barrier to Entry

Software vs. Hardware

What is your reaction to the following question?

Why don’t they X?!

SW: Has it been done before?How many programmers needed?

HW: Is that possible?

Software vs. Hardware

3D Possibility Space

Sherlock Holms’ Possibility Space




iPhone’s Possibility Space




General Possibility Space

How to make Hardware like Software?



Traditional Economies of Scale

Traditional Economies of Scale

Venician Arsenal1104

Gutenburg Press1436

(China ~1110)



HW start-ups can play with the big boys

Contract Mfgs.Multifunctional SoC (System on Chip)

Supply/Dist. Chain ProvidersNew Dist. channels (Kickstarter)

Software upgradable hardwareBrand and Contract Mfg. Support

Bring outside economies of scalein-house

as a service

HW start-ups can play with the big boys

Crowdfunding pre-order campaign


Is 3D Printing the answer?



Fundamentals of 3D Printing

Digitize Layer Finish AssembleScan

Open source Hardware

Free CADOpen standardsHacker CommunitiesVoxels (ready module)Cheap scanningCheap printingCheap materials

3D Printing is much like Software

Software/Info DrivenDigital/ScalableAutomatedModularDesign freedomLow Barrier to EntryLocal/Logistics free





Real Uses Today

Fast Prototyping/Iteration & Rapid Mfg.Unique/1-Off/Low Vol. (Molds, Prosthetics, Plane Parts)

Virtual Inventory and “long tail”Unmanufacturable (e.g. cooled turbine blades)

Art, Design, AmusementReconstruction (e.g. of artifacts)

Qii Rollable Keyboard (Indiegogo)


Real Uses Tomorrow

Local/In-home manufacturing (e.g. a “stuff” oven)

Medium Volume Manufacturing (e.g. auto parts)

Logistics Limited (e.g. spare parts in the field or in space)

Imitation FoodsMedical & Bio-Printing…

3D Printing cannever undercuttraditional highvolume mfg!

Example of novel 3DP products

Top-Down Manufacturing

3-D printing is still only an improvement on traditional top-down additive mfg.

As is mass production, subtractive mfg. etc.

Top-Down Manufacturing

3-D printing is still only an improvement on traditional top-down additive mfg.

As is mass production, subtractive mfg. etc.

Design Product

What about this?

Biology is Bottom-up Manufacturing



The Birth of Nanotechnology

On December 29, 1959, Richard Feynman gave a talk entitled

“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”

Feynman suggested that it should be possible, in principle, to make nanoscale machines that "arrange the atoms the way we want", and do chemical synthesis by

mechanical manipulation.

makromaailma Hair Bacteria Insulin Atoms

Fish Eggs Cells VirusesFatty Acids,

and Nanotubes

Nanotechnology 101

Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale.

Nanotechnology history

1913:Bohr Atomic Model


1913:Bohr Atomic Model1931:Scanning Electron Microscope


1913:Bohr Atomic Model1931:Scanning Electron Microscope1939:Transmission Electron Microscope



1947: Contact Point Transistor



1947: Contact Point Transistor1981: Scanning Probe Microscope (AFM/STM)



25 times stronger than steel

Half as dense as aluminum

1000 times more conductive than copper

Conducts heat twice as well as diamond

Thermally stable up to 1500 C

Better semiconductor than silicon

”zig-zag” ”chiral” ”armchair”(semiconducting) (semiconducting) (metallic)

Carbon Nanotube Basics

Is Nanotechnology the Answer?

Richard Feynman predicted nanoscale Top-Down assembly

NOT

Bottom-Up (Self-Assembly)

Top-Down = Research Tool

Bottom-Up = Manufacturing Tool

Bottom Up Manufacturing

How Carbon Nanotubes self assemble

First computational models indicating CNT nucleation & growth mechanism(by Kim Bolton)

1)Carbon enters metal particle2)Particle saturates with carbon3)A small graphitic carbon cap forms4)The CNT “lifts off the surface” and new carbon is introduced at the CNT base.

Self Assembly for Optical Fiber

Self assembly of nanostructured micro-particles

>10x production speed of optical

fiber

Patentedwww.almakor.com

3B$

Self Assembly for Inhalable Drugs

Self assembly of nanostructured micro-particles

>5x drug lung deposition

Patented

NANO-ENCAPSULATION

NANO-GLIDANT

www.tiecospharma.com

50B$

Teicos Inhalation: Better for Patients

Painless and simple

Inexpensive to use

Reduces side effects

Fast acting

Allows controlled release

Increases shelf life

Diabetes Market Size and Growth

•383 M people

•8% of adult population

•5 M deaths / year

•Cost of treatment is 4$/day

•548 B$ spent in 2013 (below 50% treated)

•Biggest market / growth in India & China

Example: a Systemic Disease

CONFIDENTIAL

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Particle Stream™Aerosol Flow Reactors

POC production(up to 100 mg/hr)

Lab-scale production(up to 5 g/hr)

Pilot-scale production(up to 100 g/hr)

Self Assembly for Flexible Electronics

Patented

Self assembly of nanostructured

films

>3x higher conductivity

www.canatu.com

100B$

Nano assembled production & products

Examples from Canatu’s Patent Portfolio

Flexible/Transparent Electrodesfor Ulta-Low Viz. Touch Sensors, Haptics InterfacesSolar Cells, RFID and Displays and E-Skins

Thermal Acoustic LayersIn Flexible TransparentConformal Speakers

Flexible Electrodes In Batteries andSupercaps

High Efficiency Self Cleaning

Particle Filters

Field Emitting Layersfor FEDs

EMS and ESD

Flexible/Transparent

Semiconductors andTransistors

Active layers

Saturable Absorber layersin Femto Second Lasersfor Optical Signal Generation and Regeneration and materials processing

Touch SensorsFor touch screens and surfaces

For Solar Cells

Self Assembly: Hi-Performance Batteries

Self assembly of nanostructured

interfaces

10x charging speed

2x energy

Patentedwww.broadbit.com

Nanostructure

TOP SECRET!

Self Asse

mbly

Process

TOP SECRET!

1000B$

BroadBit’s Hi-Power

sodium batteries

BroadBit’s breakthrough results

>3x lower>3x lower cost/kWhcost/kWh >3x lower>3x lower cost/kWhcost/kWh

Full EV recharging in 5 minutes possible

2× EV range at same weight3× EV range at same price

BroadBit’sHi-Energy

sodium batteries

>5x lower >5x lower cost/kW cost/kW

>5x lower >5x lower cost/kW cost/kW

Beyond Lithium Opportunities

Sufficiently high energy enables electric airplanes

Sufficiently low-costenables grid storage

Sufficiently high power replaces starter batteries

Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Catastrophic Failure Mode of Li-IonLithium Dendrite formation

Status

We are soon ready for building pilot manufacturing

Battery assembly partner

In-house pilot line for 100 kg/day battery component production

First pouch cells built

Performance Verified

The State of Bottom-up Nanotech

Shimon Peres 1923-2016

“Ultimately, Nanotechnology is about doing more with less”

?

SW Cheaper & Faster

Lower CapExSmaller general teams

Easier to ScaleNo logisticsOpen source, APIs etc

More ProfitableHigher marginsLower marginal costs

Lower Barrier to Entry

Is Hardware the new Software?

HW Cheap & Fast

Low CapExSmall specialized teams

Easy to ScaleOutsourced supply/distributionOutsourced manufacturing

Very ProfitableHigh margins (from IP/Brand)Low marginal costs


SW Cheaper & Faster

Easier to Scale

More Profitable

Lower Barrier to Entry

Revenue?

Competitors

Is Hardware the new Software?

HW Cheap & Fast

Easy to Scale

Very Profitable


People Buy Hardware!

Passion/loyalty

Do software companies inspire this?

THANK YOU

David Brown, PhDCo-Founder & CEO

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