Despite an explosion in nanomaterials discovery, with many potential applications, commercial manufacturing of sustainable and scalable high-value nanomaterials remains elusive. Addressing these barriers requires new systems-based and integrative mind-set. It enables parallel and responsive progression of multiple and dependent research strands, according to need, opportunities, and emergent knowledge. This approach sits at odds with the traditional linear view, which focuses initially on the discovery of specific material leads at the laboratory scale, leaving scale-up and commercialisation to be considered as distinctly separate and disconnected concerns. This presentation will discuss our integrated approach, which considers aspects ranging from materials discovery to applications and manufacturing. With selected examples of nanomaterials including emerging porous materials, battery materials, metal organic nanosheets for solar applications, this presentation will illustrate how this integrated approach was implemented and how it helped overcome multiple technological challenges.
