 Hi, I'm Chris Thompson for Investor Intel and today we are speaking with Dan Blondell, the CEO and founder of NanoOne Materials. Ticker symbol is NANO on the TSX. How are you today, Dan? Great, Chris. Thanks for bringing me on the show. So Dan, NanoOne focuses on a process for the production of cathode materials used in lithium-ion batteries and as people might know, cathode is a critical component of these lithium-ion batteries and a major expense in electric vehicles. Maybe you can just touch on exactly what NanoOne does. Yeah, so NanoOne is an industrial technology company and we're developing a process to make these cathode materials. The technology is a platform that allows us to make a whole range of different types of cathode materials. So we have a sort of strategic efforts in lithium-ion phosphate in which are iron-rich materials, manganese-rich materials for sort of fast charging applications, and deco-rich materials for energy-dense applications. The underlying technology is what we call a one-pot process and it makes coated single crystal powders for more durability in the battery. And it also enables us to make cathode materials directly from metal powders, a technology that we call M2CAM or metal to cathode active material. And that allows us to bypass the intermediate conversion of metals to sulfates. So we eliminate the use of sulfates all the associated waste, all the associated shipping costs, environmental footwork, and cost that comes with that. So this is pretty significant from, as you mentioned, from both a waste and a cost side of the equation. How are you finding it received in the marketplace? There's a tremendous amount of interest, particularly in the last six months to a year, as the auto-codes and the supply chain wakes up to how they have to green the supply chain and we have to further drive down costs. So it's about integrating the supply chain and making it better at the end of the day. And so it's resonating very well. And I guess if we're looking at the last couple of news releases, this is coming to fruition with a couple of agreements you've put in place, one with a mining company, one with an automotive company. Maybe you can just quickly walk through those items. Yeah, we have been developing more and more relationships way upstream with mining companies, both junior and fully integrated miners. And I think that because obviously there's an interest there in developing a supply chain that brings greater value to their product and helps eliminate some of the waste in the stream. The automotive companies as well, of course, are very interested in that. But they're also interested in integrating everything kind of downstream of mining to leverage the chemistry of the batteries that can be made from that chemistry and how it fits between the wheels and their vehicle. And we announced a deal recently with Euro manganese on the sort of junior mining thing related to manganese. And at the same time, we announced an MOU with a large global automotive manufacturer to develop a manganese-rich lithium-mine battery for fast charging type applications. So you're basically looking at that from both sides. You're looking at from helping the miners get their product into a battery and helping the automotive companies get locked down their supply chain. Yeah, essentially, we're working at the bookends of the supply chain to create demand for our technology. And we're finding we're getting a lot of traction and a lot of advancement with the miners and with the auto coast. Obviously, we have to fulfill that in the midstream between the two. And working with the chemical companies and looking at opportunities to put demonstration facilities in place in various jurisdictions around the world is an extremely sort of important part of our strategy as well. For instance, we announced a joint development agreement with Johnson Matthew earlier this year to develop a nickel-rich material that they call ELNO. It's intended for the high end of batteries for long-range luxury electric vehicle type applications. And how are you protecting your investment? Well, I think the key thing here is around IP and technology development. This is about building out a robust, resilient technology portfolio that can be used to license basically into the space as a wage for us to partner with the auto coast, the mining companies, and the midstream chemical producers to help build out that supply chain, green it up, clean it up, and make it better for the future. And did I see you got some new patents as well this summer? Yes, I think we're patent number 20 right now that has been issued to us. And those fall into jurisdictions, obviously Canada and the US and then in Asia, there's Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China. And we have about another 40 patents in the pipeline and a roughly about 20, 26, 27 different patent families that are currently being prosecuted in various states of pending. So how are you going to turn this into profits? So this is all obviously it's all about execution. It's all about getting to a point where we are licensing our technology either into a joint venture or into a pure royalty play and we're well along the way with a whole number of our partners. And what sort of news do you think investors should see over the next six months with the company? Well, I think investors can expect to see more news about partnerships and obviously more news about what our strategic efforts are going to be towards I guess partnering on these facilities, on these demonstration facilities. I think particularly they should look to us to be doing things very actively in North America, ramping up our program on lithium iron phosphate on the high nickel materials and on the manganese rich materials as well. Well, that's great. I thanks for your time today. I think this, you know, as most people are aware of the electric vehicle space is booming. A lot of commitments from the environmental conference that they're looking to, you know, move towards cars, towards EV cars, towards the mid 19th, sorry, 2035 timeframe. So I think over the next few years you've got a lot more interest in, you know, the material side to ensure that you can actually produce these batteries. Certainly find ourselves in a sweet spot and are very excited about the coming months, the coming decade as well. I mean, it is quite tremendous, the amount of growth and opportunity that lies in front of us. Well, that's great. And we look forward to watching your progress and speaking with you again soon about it. Thanks. It was Dan Blundell. It was the founder and CEO of Nano One Materials. Thanks, Chris.