Energy Storage
Graphene has clear potential as an enabler of groundbreaking advances in energy storage. Its application presents real opportunity to drive advances in improving efficiency, conductivity, and energy density, as well as preventing corrosion.
Interest is high in battery architectures that are currently under development and novel chemistries as these approaches directly address the holy grail of the battery world – faster charging, higher energy density, and longer life.
Potential Applications
Other areas where graphene’s impermeability, transparency, chemical stability, and conductivity can be utilized to drive energy storage innovation include:
- Lithium ion batteries
- Supercapacitors
- Other static storage for wind, solar and hydroelectric energy production
Electronics
Graphene is a transformative material in the electronics industry, with extraordinary conductivity, flexibility, and barrier properties that drive efficiency, superior performance, cost reduction, and innovation.
Potential Applications
Graphene’s extreme thinness, incredible strength, and optical transparency position the material as an enabler of innovation across the electronics industry including:
- Transparent conductors
- Field effect transistors
- Wiring and circuitry
- Solar panels
- Touch screens
- Flexible wearables
- OLED encapsulation
- High speed optoelectronics
Life Sciences
Graphene is ultrathin, atomically smooth, has a high surface area, is flexible, highly conductive, chemically inert, impermeable, and biocompatible. This unique combination of enabling properties makes graphene an important candidate to improve the performance of a device, add new capabilities, and minimize the incidence and magnitude of undesirable biofilm production.
Potential Applications
Graphene’s unique properties of thinness, flexibility, conductivity, and biocompatibility make it an ideal material for use as a driver of advancement and innovation in the life sciences sector.
Examples of sectors in which graphene can empower improvements in performance and efficiency include:
- Implant technology, including pacemakers, stents, ports and catheters
- Biosensors
- Prostheses
- Tissue engineering
- Stem cell growth
- Wound monitoring and healing
- 96 well plates
Barrier Films
The transparency, flexibility, and impermeability of graphene makes it a potentially transformative material in sectors where products need to be protected from environmental factors.
Potential Applications
Graphene is virtually weightless, thin, flexible, chemically inert, and most importantly, impermeable (especially multilayer graphene films) which makes it perfect a candidate for protection from oxygen, moisture, and other aggressive media.
With barrier films being an essential element of nearly every technological sector, there are a wide range of areas in which graphene can play a critical advancement role. These include:
- Food and pharmaceutical packaging
- OLEDs
- Metal anti-corrosion coatings
- Oxygen barriers
- Moisture barriers
Filtration
This ultra thin, high flux, molecular selective, chemically stable, mechanically strong, and flexible material, makes graphene an ideal separation and filtration membrane.
Potential Applications
The chemical and mechanical stability of graphene makes it an ideal candidate for innovative approaches to filtration and separation, driving productivity and effectiveness.
Example areas where graphene has the power to enable improved outcomes in this space include:
- Desalination
- Water filtration
- Oil and gas separation
- Kidney dialysis
- Distillation
- Deuterium production
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Graphene is an exciting and revolutionary material adding endless, new capabilities to products - capabilities that once only existed in the realm of science fiction. Since graphene science is relatively new, it can be unclear where the line is between empirically-based facts and the exciting opportunities yet to come. Rest assured, our team of world-class scientists work daily to find (and push) that line forward; and we’re making that team available to you.
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