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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001387131-18-002458
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20180531
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180531

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES Corp
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000883107
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISCELLANEOUS PRIMARY METAL PRODUCTS [3390]
		IRS NUMBER:				363687863
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-22333
		FILM NUMBER:		18870643

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1319 MARQUETTE DRIVE
		CITY:			ROMEOVILLE
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60446
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6303231200

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1319 MARQUETTE DRIVE
		CITY:			ROMEOVILLE
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60446

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19970305
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">UNITED STATES</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Washington, D.C. 20549</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>FORM SD<BR>
SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">(Exact name of registrant as specified
in its charter)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 34%; text-align: center; line-height: 107%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>0-22333</B></FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 33%; text-align: center; line-height: 107%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>36-3687863</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; line-height: 107%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; line-height: 107%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">(Commission File Number)</FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>1319 Marquette Drive, Romeoville,
Illinois 60446</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Jaime Escobar</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">Chief Financial Officer</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">(630) 771-6705</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">(Name and Telephone Number, Including
Area Code, of</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center">the Person to Contact in Connection with
this Report)</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><B>&nbsp;</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in">Check the appropriate
box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form
applies:</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Calibri, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Segoe UI Symbol,sans-serif">&#9746;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rule
13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2017.</FONT>&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><B>Section 1 &ndash; Conflict Mineral Disclosure</B></P>

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    <TD STYLE="line-height: 107%; width: 90%"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Conflict Mineral Disclosure</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">This Form SD of Nanophase Technologies Corporation (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;)
is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &ldquo;Rule&rdquo;), for
the reporting period January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when
a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality
or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite, including
their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin and tungsten (the &ldquo;Conflict Minerals&rdquo;). The &ldquo;Covered Countries&rdquo;
for the purposes of the Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries, which include the Republic of the
Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">The Company is an advanced materials and applications developer
and commercial manufacturer with an integrated family of materials technologies. The Company produces engineered nano and &ldquo;non-nano&rdquo;
materials for use in a variety of diverse markets: personal care including sunscreens as active ingredients and in fully formulated
cosmetics of its own design, architectural coatings, industrial coating applications, abrasion-resistant additives, plastics additives,
medical diagnostics, energy (including solar control) and a variety of surface finishing technologies (polishing) applications,
including optics. The Company has also expanded its offering beyond active ingredients to include targeted full formulations of
sunscreen and skin care products, marketed and sold by its wholly-owned subsidiary Sol&eacute;sence&reg;, LLC.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">The Company conducted an analysis of its products and concluded
that its solar control applications and certain of its coating applications, which contain tin and/or tungsten (the &ldquo;Products&rdquo;),
are its only products for which a Conflict Mineral is necessary to the functionality or production of such product. Purchases of
tungsten used in the Products during calendar year 2017 was from only one supplier&nbsp;. No tin purchases were made in 2017.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><B>Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">The Company conducted a good faith reasonable country of
origin inquiry regarding the tin and/or tungsten in the Products. The Company believes its good faith reasonable country of origin
inquiry was reasonably designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals contained in the Products originated in the Covered
Countries and whether any of the Conflict Minerals contained in the Products were from recycled or scrap sources.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">In particular, in conducting its reasonable country of
origin inquiry, the Company contacted its supplier of the tungsten utilized in the Products and received written
representation from the supplier that the tungsten, as applicable, that the Company used in the Products was not sourced from
the Covered Countries or was from recycled or scrap sources. Based on this reasonable country of origin inquiry, the Company
determined that it has no reason to believe that the Conflict Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of the
Products may have originated in the Covered Countries.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">This Form SD is publicly available on the Company&rsquo;s
website at&nbsp;<I>www.nanophase.com</I>&nbsp;on the Investor Relations page, under the heading &ldquo;Conflict Minerals Disclosure.&rdquo;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Not applicable.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0"><B>Section 2 &ndash; Exhibits</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">None.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0 0 8pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">&nbsp;</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Dated: May 30, 2018&nbsp;</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; font: 11pt/107% Calibri, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">NANOPHASE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION</FONT></TD></TR>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">By: /s/ Jaime Escobar</P></TD></TR>
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        <P STYLE="font: 10pt/normal Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0">Title: Chief Financial Officer</P></TD></TR>
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