Welcome to Hawaii NanoSciences, LLC

At Hawaii NanoSciences LLC, we build businesses that use nanotechnology, polymer chemistry, and materials sciences for commercial applications in mature industries. Hawaii NanoSciences companies include Nanopaper LLC, dedicated to improving paper and pulp products, Nanostructured Consumer Products LLC, creating novel ingredients for household care categories, and Soane Energy LLC, developing creative solutions to entrenched problems in the traditional and renewable energy markets. We invent solutions to long-felt needs in major, established industries.

Cutting-edge and world-class research lies at the heart of Hawaii NanoSciences. Each Hawaii NanoSciences company is based on proprietary technologies that are customized for an individual industry: paper, consumer products and energy. We are experts at modifying the surfaces of materials on a nano-scale, using thin-film chemistry and physics to improve performance of familiar products, leading to better products and more efficient production. As CEO, chemical engineer David Soane, Ph.D, leads the Hawaii NanoSciences effort, building on his successful track record as a serial entrepreneur leveraging polymer chemistry to create innovative products and companies.

Hawaii NanoSciences is a holding company for our businesses. In each vertical in which we work, we partner with industry leaders, typically Fortune 500 companies, to maximize the value of our innovations in the marketplace and deliver dramatic improvements in our partners’ products.

Under the leadership of Dr. Soane, Hawaii NanoSciences has assembled strong technical and management teams, including some of the foremost scientists in our field.