To ensure Chalmers as key player for graphene based two dimensional (2D) composite materials research, Chalmers Foundation invests SEK 15 million into a new research group. 2D materials are only one-atom-thick and have the potential to become super materials to be used for health sensors, water filters, new cool electronics or better batteries.
Graphene is a material formed from carbon in a honeycomb structure with one-atom thickness. It provides distinctive optical, thermal, electronic and mechanical properties. The material can be manufactured into sheets, flakes and graphene oxide to provide a variety of applications to the field of biomedicine.
Although transistors developed by using carbon nanostructures seem to be a distant dream, they could become reality in the very near future. An international team of scientists in collaboration with Empa has been successful in developing nanotransistors by using graphene ribbons with a width of just few atoms. The study has been published in the latest issue of the Nature Communications journal.
Stavanger, Norway – December 5, 2017;
CealTech AS announced today that it received its first prototype graphene production unit (aka, FORZATM) on the 4th of December 2017. The FORZATM is essentially an industrial-scale, Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PE-CVD) reactor. It is designed by CealTech, and is based on Caltech’s patented PE-CVD production technique, which CealTech holds the exclusive right for use.
“This is history in the making; a milestone in the history of CealTech”, said Michel Eid, Marketing and Sales Manager at CealTech. He added, “this culminates months of hard work and tireless dedication by our employees, our investors, our third-party vendors, and with the support from Caltech”.
The FORZATM will be installed in CealTech’s production facility in Stavanger, Norway, during the month of December 2017. This will be followed by an optimization phase starting from January 2018, where the production parameters will be fine-tuned to ensure consistent and effective production of CealTech’s high quality 3D graphene.
More information on the start-up plans of graphene production and sales will be announced in due course. Stay tuned!