In partnership with Bosch, the CNPEM worked to develop a car component to improve combustion performance. Besides the performance differentials expected from the new technology, the part was developed using materials from renewable sources, reducing its environmental impact. This addressed two major challenges: developing processes to convert the raw material from sugarcane into active, nano-structured materials with critical characteristics for the end user, and designing the part itself. The raw material was converted to obtain a product with properties resembling the state of the art in the literature, demonstrating LNNano’s experience in developing this type of nanostructured material.