Deploying new technology for growing the world's longest carbon nanotubes has created a world of possibilities for Cincinnati-based General Nano LLC. Created in 2007 to advance the commercial application of groundbreaking research at the University of Cincinnati Nanoworld and Smart Materials and Devices Laboratory, General Nano has secured Air Force SBIR Phase I & II and NSF SBIR Ph I and produced and applied CNT yarn in commercial applications for the aerospace, defense, energy, textiles, biomedial, electronics, and sensor industries.