Advanced Materials

Grafoid Inc. to sign a two-year R&D agreement with the University of Waterloo to investigate and develop a graphene-based composite for electrochemical energy storage for the automotive and/or portable electronics sectors.

The IDTechE report - Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) 2013-2023: Technologies, Markets, Players, discusses in detail the market trends and forecasts for growth in the next decade, as well as the main sectors that will be initial target markets for organic solar cells.

Swiss specialty chemicals group Clariant International AG acquired the nano-silver ink technology platform developed under the trademark Bayink® from Bayer Group (Germany).

IDTechEx estimates the electroactive polymer market volume to be US$ 245 million in 2013. This shows, despite several decades of R&D and first applications, the electroactive polymers (EAP) field is still far from mature. Why is this? Challenges, such as performance, long-term stability and reliable mass production, still need further development to tailor the properties to the requirements of each target application. However, the potential is as high as US$ 2.25 billion by 2018, dominated by consumer electronics, actuators and sensors applications.

Focus Graphite Inc on behalf of Grafoid Inc has announced Grafoid's joint venture development agreement with Coquitlam, British Columbia-based CapTherm Systems Inc to develop and commercialize next generation, multiphase thermal management systems for electric vehicle (EV) battery and light emitting diode (LED) technologies.

University of Manchester graphene researchers have been awarded a £3.5m funding boost that could bring desalination plants, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.

As more and more companies are gearing up and demonstrating flexible display prototypes the need for protection of these new devices that are freed from the constraints of conventional rigid form factors is highlighted once more.

Graphene, the single-atom-thick form of carbon, has become famous for its extraordinary strength. But less-than-perfect sheets of the material show unexpected weakness.

LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in tough price competition for panel makers, to the point that many panel makers are no longer profitable.

American Graphite Technologies Inc has announced the successful production of test samples of a graphene paper product.