American NanoMyte, a division of NEI Corporation, has leveraged its parent company's decade-long nanomaterials expertise to create breakthrough materials technologies. Since 1997, NEI Corporation has been developing and manufacturing novel nanotechnology enabled products including polymer coatings, battery materials, and heat transfer fluids, and other emerging technologies. American NanoMyte was formed in August of 2008 to focus exclusively on chromate-free coatings and corrosion inhibiting additives.

American NanoMyte is focused on three initiatives:

SELF-HEALING: When a polymer coating or paint layer on metal is scratched or damaged it can accelerate the corrosion process. One of the distinct advantages of a chromate coating is its unique ability to heal or repair itself. American NanoMyte has successfully introduced the feature of autonomous or self-healing into its pretreatment, primer and topcoat formulations without the need for chromate. Self-healing not only prolongs the onset of corrosion, but provides an aesthetic benefit by causing scratches to disappear and gaps to close that detract from a coating's visual appearance.

CHROMATE ELIMINATION: Chromate or hexavalent chromium has long been recognized as a carcinogen. Not only is there potential exposure to hexavalent chromium during the coating application process, but there is a high probability of releasing chromate ions into the environment as a coated metal part ages or undergoes cleaning or refurbishing. As a result, the permissible exposure to chromates has been drastically limited in general industries. This has created an opportunity for American NanoMyte's chromate-free corrosion inhibiting pretreatments and primer coatings for use on aluminum and magnesium alloys, as well as on steel.

NANOPARTICLE DISPERSION: The excellent corrosion resistance properties of American NanoMyte's pretreatment and primer coatings is a result of the use of nanoscale materials in the formulations, which allow corrosion inhibiting ions to diffuse rapidly to the defect sites as soon as a flaw or a crack develops in the coating. The uniquely designed nanoscale particles and their optimal dispersion in the coating make them vastly more effective than conventionally used micron-size, non-chromate pigment particles.