Green hydrogen to drive VSParticle’s growth in coming years

All the way from Vancouver, Aaike van Vugt, co-founder and CEO of VSParticle (VSP), takes a moment to answer questions. At the annual Accelerate Conference, organized by the Accelerate Consortium and the University of Toronto, researchers and scientists gather to talk about accelerating materials from lab to market. Van Vugt had to be there because in the inorganic corner, he claims to provide the best technology.

VSP’s technology originated in 1980 at Delft University of Technology. During his PhD there, the now professor emeritus Andreas Schmidt-Ott discovered that very small particles can be generated with spark machining. He found out how particle formation can be scaled up reliably by sparking at higher frequencies. It took 33 years for the core patent to be registered – the patent that forms the basis for VSParticle. A year later, in 2014, the company got off the ground.