Advanced Materials

IDTechEx has invited a series of industrial players and leaders active in graphene commercialization to contribute their opinions about the state of the technology and markets. As part of article series, we will today hear from PPG Industries who write about their bottom-up production process and their commercialization progress.

Researchers have developed a new method for measuring the number of single walled carbon nanotubes and their concentration in a carbon nanotube layer.

Trends and progress with printing techniques for Printed Electronics.

STANDARD GRAPHENE has been developing and manufacturing various application products with more than 50 companies around the world.

This article provides an analysis of the past, the present and the future of graphene commercialization. More specifically, it will consider the diversity of graphene materials and prices on the market today. Next, it will consider the emerging application pipeline for graphene, demonstrating that many applications are in the late commercial prototyping and early commercial sales stage. The rapid expansion in global production capacity is then examined and its implications such as low utilisation rate as well as weak QA controls explored. The profitability state of the industry is then analysed, showing that the industry remains largely loss-making despite revenue growth across the board in recent years. The current size of the market is then estimated based on interviews with 40+ companies whilst a ten-year application-segmented market forecast is provided, giving our perspective on how the market will evolve in the medium- as well as long-terms.

Researchers have discovered a simple and scalable method for turning graphene oxide into a non-flammable and paper-like graphene membrane that can be used in large-scale production.

IDTechEx Technology analyst Dr. Lorenzo Grande was at Battery Japan 2017 to listen to the 30+ talks by leading Japanese companies, as well as to attend the co-located exhibition.

Researchers have developed transparent electrodes for OLED displays out of graphene.

Researchers have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of two-dimensional nanomaterials for the first time.

IDTechEx Launchpad will showcase innovations from 18 start-up companies at the IDTechEx Show! held in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 May 2017 (www.IDTechEx.com/europe).

The Things Network are the largest operator of LoRaWAN networks in the world. David Pugh spoke to CEO Weinke Giezeman about the technology and the growing verticals of smart cities and agriculture.

From an electron's point of view, graphene must be a hair-raising thrill ride. For years, scientists have observed that electrons can blitz through graphene at velocities approaching the speed of light, far faster than they can travel through silicon and other semiconducting materials.

$35 Million to Accelerate Materials Science Discovery. Projects will apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to speed development of materials for next-generation energy.

C3Nano Inc announced that it has closed $15 million in equity financing.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Wednesday 19 April 2017 titled Graphene and Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Commercialization: Past, Present and Future.

Inspired by an American fern, researchers have developed a groundbreaking prototype that could be the answer to the storage challenge still holding solar back as a total energy solution.

The Airbus group has developed a polymer additive that acts as shutdown mechanism for Li-ion batteries in case of thermal runaway

Printed electronics can lead to both low-cost and flexible devices. Flexible electronics is of particular interest for wearable systems, such as health and fitness trackers, while the relative low-costs of printing are attractive for functional packaging for consumer products.

A new way to grow narrow ribbons of graphene, a lightweight and strong structure of single-atom-thick carbon atoms linked into hexagons, may address a shortcoming that has prevented the material from achieving its full potential in electronic applications.

IDTechEx has invited a series of industrial players and leaders active in graphene commercialization to contribute their opinions about the state of the technology and markets. As part of article series, we will today hear from Nanomedical Diagnostics who write about their progress with their commercial biophysical assay tool based on graphene transistors.