 Hi, how are you doing today? I'm your host Rich here and we have a Rich TV live with my very special guest, the CEO of Nano One Materials Corp, Dan Blondal. How are you doing today, Dan? Fantastic, Rich. Great to be here. Great to have you on the show. Very excited about learning more about your company. You guys have been doing some really big things. Nano One is a technology company with a one-pot process for producing low-cost, high-performance cathode powder. Can you tell us a little bit more about the company and what you do? Yeah, so we are a technology company and we're focused on developing industrial technology for the production of cathode materials as you had in your introduction. Cathode materials for lithium ion batteries. And cathode materials for your listeners' edification are a powder. Each grain of powder is comprised of lithium, nickel, manganese, cobalt, bunch of different materials. And you basically have to make these things so that lithium can go in and out and allow the battery to be charged and discharged. So we have a better way of doing it that lowers costs, lowers the environmental footprint and the carbon footprint while improving the performance of the material. Fantastic. And you touched on it a little bit. Can you talk a little bit more about the lithium ion battery cathode market and all of the opportunities it offers nano one? So the lithium ion batteries are definitely here to stay, whether they're solid-state batteries or next-generation batteries are the ones we have in our phones and cars today. They're all very similar beasts and cathode materials are essential to all of the above. Our technology is kind of battery agnostic and chemistry agnostic because we can make all the different flavors of material. They all have lithium in them, but some of them have more nickel or no nickel or more cobalt or no cobalt and they all have different strength and weaknesses, some charge faster, some don't, etc. And this technology is here to stay. There's no doubt about it and we have a platform that can address the whole market. We're seeing some really interesting developments. The auto companies are starting to integrate the cells and the components directly into the car, much like Apple has done in their phones and earbuds, etc. Now we're starting to see that happen in vehicles and then in an upstream where we are we're starting to see consolidation in the supply chain. How do you simplify it? How do you get rid of all the extra steps? How do you get rid of the carbon footprint? And those are also places where we can really leverage our technology. What separates Nano1 from your competitors? I think what really separates us is, first of all, our willingness to disrupt the supply chain. So we have a disruptive process. Our competitors are largely entrenched, so they're not as interested in disruption until they're forced into it. The fact that, technologically, our approach is very different because we are using alternative sources of lithium, nickel, magnesium, cobalt to drive down cost and environmental footprint and carbon footprint. And that means, and we have a process that's different. We combine the lithium, the nickel, the magnesium, cobalt all at once, whereas the industry does it in a whole series of steps that makes it more inefficient. So we've kind of carved out a whole bunch of intellectual property impacts that are bearing a lot of fruit. And there's actually more room there to patent because everyone's being concentrated on really conventional and entrenched ways of doing it. And we've kind of got a new way of doing all this. So that's really separates us. I love that. Here at Rich TV Live, we love to identify disruptive companies. We love companies that have a niche. When you find companies that are in a very competitive industry and there's so many other alternatives, it becomes very difficult to decide which company to choose. But if you're kind of the leader of a niche industry, that's where I believe the opportunities can be like rocket fuel. And we've seen that with Tesla. Obviously, we see the market cap of Tesla growing over 700 billion. So it's incredible to see what disruptive companies can do. We've seen it with Beyond Meat. And we've seen it with one disruptive technology or one disruptive company after another. Now, Nano One has also a very impressive leadership roster. Who are your key members and what experience do they bring to the team? Well, you've all met me. I've come an engineer. I have an engineering background. I'm a founder of the company. Obviously, I'm kind of the face of the company by and large. But really, that the heavy lifting is done by Stephen Campbell, who's our CTO. Stephen comes from Ballard Power Systems and the Daimler Ford Ballard spin-off that was called AFCC. And that was a very successful project. All that technology was transferred back to Germany and Stephen came to work for us. And he's been instrumental in setting forth our sort of technology roadmap, be it the chemistry technology, the stuff we're working on, the supply chain side. So we're really thrilled to have him leading that technological charge. The newest person on our roster is a fellow named Alex Holmes. And he has 20 years in the capital markets arena, 10 of it on the investment banking side and 10 of it on the company side of things, both in technology and in natural resource company growth. So I'm really excited to have him on board a very good strategic mind and a very sort of good organizational person to have on board. So we're really excited about him. On a chairman's side, Paul Mattisic is the chairman of the company. And for those of you who don't know Paul, he's led probably somewhere just south of $3 billion enterprise growth in the capital markets, largely in energy metals. So, you know, lithium, copper, uranium, and has played quite well, kind of just plays quite well into our space as well, because he knows it very well. And then lastly, we have two advisors that are really playing an important role in currently establishing ourselves in the supply chain, Joe Lowry on the lithium side, and Robert Morris on the nickel cobalt and a cathode side of things. Both have a tremendous amount of experience selling their metals in Asia over the last 20 years and continue to be very involved. Wow, it's a great team. Now, Nano one has also some numerous collaborations and joint developments taking place. Are there any you'd like to highlight? So we've got about 20 different collaborators we're working with, and about six of them are fairly prominent activities. A lot of them are sort of earlier stage testing and things like that. But, you know, Volkswagen is the most notable name that we have at their roster. We have a US automotive that we announced as a partner in December. We can't tell you who they are, but it's one of several that we're working with and we plan to add more to the list. In that case, on the really on the automotive side, we're working on next generation chemistry and batteries, but also on exploiting some of the changes that are really needed in the supply chain to lower costs and carbon footprint. And that's of course very important to the OEMs. Then Nano one has continued to roll out exciting news in 2021, including the recent launch of a new groundbreaking technology called M2 cam. Can you tell us about that? Well, in a nutshell, it is a very long and complex process to go from mine all the way to Catholic materials. And along the way, you have to convert metals into sulfates. And that adds thousands of dollars a ton to the cost of nickel and manganese and cobalt, for instance. You have to convert lithium into hydroxide. That adds another couple thousand dollars. And then there's a series of steps that combine all these things that we felt had that could be vastly simplified. So we have developed this one pot process where everything goes into the pot all at once. We can go directly from metal powers and we avoid the need to convert it to a sulfate in between. And we are able to avoid the conversion of lithium to hydroxide. So lithium goes directly into our pot as well as the coatings and any kind of additive materials that need to go in. So it's all it's all one reaction. And we are basically cramming four steps into one. And we eliminate the need to this expensive need to make the sulfate and actually later landfill it and waste it. And so it brings a whole bunch of cost savings on the metals front, on the lithium front. And then because we do everything in one reaction, we also avoid all the additive steps afterwards. And that brings probably another somewhere between somewhere up to $2,000 in savings as well on top of that. So all told, there's not only is there savings measured in many thousands of dollars per ton, but there's a significant reduction in the carbon footprint all the way along because you're not having you know, there's not all this energy to produce these materials. You don't have to ship up a whole bunch of waste stuff that's going to get them and go into the landfill later on around the world. So it's really about streamlining, reducing the carbon footprint and reducing the overall cost of the supply chain. Dan, our investors are looking for catalysts. What can we expect from nano one over the next couple of months? Well, we're going to be adding, we've got like I said, we've got a good half dozen partners that we're actively working with right now. And we're planning to add another half dozen this year. I think most of them will be kind of in the front half of the year. And so those relationships have moved along quite well. And we're looking forward to being able to announce them in a little more detail around them. And so that's going to be, we believe those will be major catalysts. And as we bring on more and more institutional investors as well. And that's been a recent change in the makeup of our shareholder base. I think that'll bring a lot of strength to the table. And then lastly, this whole metal to cam thing, this end to cam, has really enabled us to reach either end of the supply chain to the miners, because it creates more value for their products. And to the OEMs who are looking for the these kinds of environmental improvements and cost improvements, they're really going to help drive this and actually bring the kind of piloting we need in place in the US and Canada and in Europe and in Australia and South America. And those kinds of, I think announcements will really kind of spark the market and drive, I think drive attention to what we're doing, both strategically and quite hopefully from the investment community. That sounds great. Now, we're going to have investors from all over the world watching this video learning about Nano one. What's the best way for them to get in contact with the company? Well, there's always our website, of course. And on the website, you can sign up for investor news and you can keep, you know, watch our, you know, watch our, watch our news, which where we put out probably, we put up three news releases last week. They go on average, we're putting, we're news release out every one or two weeks. And of course, we're active on social media. So there you can go to our LinkedIn and YouTube page and Twitter page and basically all the social media platforms that we need. And of course, we have investor relations and etc. And we are listed on the TSX venture under nno.d. So that's where you can find us. And of course, there are equivalent listings on the, on the OTC in the US and also in Germany under the Frankfurt market. Very good. Well, thank you so much for your time today, Dan Blundahl, the CEO of nano one materials corp. If you guys liked the video, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video and subscribe, hit the bell for notifications. So every time we have big breaking news or any news regarding nano one, you get it first. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for education, entertainment purposes, always do your due diligence, always do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here in Rich TV Live. Chances are when you speak to your financial advisor about nano one, they're going to say, where'd you hear about this pick? And you can say on Rich TV Live and they're going to say, that's a really good pick. And I believe this is a very good pick. Keep up the great work then. And thank you for joining us on our show today. Great, Rich, fantastic being here. Thanks very much for the opportunity. My pleasure. Have yourself a great day, Dan. And thank you guys for watching. Have a great day, everybody.