Advanced Materials

Arjowiggins is a manufacturer of creative and technical paper. The company has launched PowerCoat, a paper substrate product with unique features focussed for the printed electronics market.

Printed sensors are not a novelty: force sensing resistors (FSR) is a proven technology and are manufactured by screen printing a functional polymer. Interlink Electronics was the first company to commercialize FSR and has more than 25 years of experience in manufacturing them. But there has been a lack of innovation. The company is now looking for new acquisitions and partnerships.

A layer of graphene can reduce the working temperature in hotspots inside a processor by up to 25 percent - which can significantly extend the working life of computers and other electronics.

Innovation in the field of nanotechnology has largely enabled a high level of product differentiation. Indeed, the market today contains graphene, carbon nanotubes, and silver and copper nanostructure (nanoparticle and nanowire) inks, all of which have one or two dimensions in the nanoscale.

Linde's carbon nanotube inks can be used to manufacture completely new technologies, such as a smartphone with a screen that rolls up like a window shade and a see-through GPS device embedded in the windshield of a car.

Graphene based inks with properties that quickly enable its customers to use graphene in a wide range of applications