Advanced Materials

Kimoto Co is a Japanese firm founded in 1952. It specialises in coating films.The company offers the Ohmlex Film, a transparent conductive film targeted to touch panel applications as an alternative to ITO.

Toppan Printing is a large Japanese printing company founded over a century ago. It has 1.5 trillion Japanese yen sales and employs 15,000 persons globally. The company has developed an alternative to ITO as a transparent conductive film (TCF) - it uses copper mesh, which it says is suitable for screen sizes ranging from 15" to 55". This has a sheet resistance of 0.01Ohms/square.

Perpetuus Advanced Materials is commercializing plasma-exfoliated graphene nanoplatellets or nano-graphite, as they put it. The versatility of their production method is in its ability to tune amorphousity, surface area and functionalisation. It claims to be operating an independently-verified production capacity of >100 tpa.

DARPA's Open Manufacturing program seeks to build and demonste rapid qualification technologies that comprehensively capture, analyze and control variability in the manufacturing process to predict the properties of resulting products.

All the possible uses for graphene face the same big hurdle: the need for a scalable and cost-effective method for continuous manufacturing of graphene films.

PV Nano Cell has announced that it is introducing its digital ink technology to the rapidly growing U.S. printed electronics market.

This company is a high drive R&D based enterprise investing money from a float on the Korean equivalent of NASDAQ to develop a host of formulations

Scientists have moved graphene a significant step along the path from lab bench novelty to commercially viable material for new electronic applications.

Advanced Graphene Materials (AGP) was spun off in 2012 from Lodz University of Technology in Poland. Under the brand name High Strength Metallurgical Graphene, It is developing poly-crystalline graphene sheets that are mechnically stronger than CVD graphene.

Carbon nanotubes were the wonder material more than a decade ago. We think that multi-walled carbon nanotubes are being pulled out of the valley of despair thanks to a series of real applications in the conducting composite and energy storage sectors.

EMS based in Delaware, OH, USA was acquired by Nagase Chemtex Corporation in 2012 after about 10 years of collaborative efforts between the two companies in epoxy materials development. Originally working on epoxy adhesives for industrial applications, in early 2000's EMS developed conductive epoxies and hence started its foray into conductive inks.

At IDTechEx we have been closely following and analysing the nano-carbon areas including graphene and carbon nanotubes.

Scientists have pioneered a new technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes into fibres commonly associated with the textile industry.

Video interview with Applied Graphene Materials

UICO make touch technology solutions, around durable pro-cap solutions for water/dirt/glove readability. They formed in 2007, based in Chicago, and are now expanding their operations at a second site in Silicon valley.

Joanneum Research is a technology provider for business and industrial clients. They are made up of six research divisions which product IP which they can then license out to customers.