That year a German chemistry journal published a paper which, without naming Symyx, clobbered its approach, stating that tests done in small quantities could not be reproduced in larger batches.

FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.

The result, they claim in a paper that will appear this month in the Journal of Physical Chemistry, is a nanofibre material with an extremely high ratio of surface-area to volume.

ECONOMIST: Space-age soot