ROTOBOOST, a Finnish energy transition technology company, has received a strategic investment from Aramco Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco. The company will use the funding to scale its methane pyrolysis technology, which… Read More »Aramco Ventures invests in Finnish ROTOBOOST to scale graphene production from methane
HEG Advanced Materials’ board has approved a graphene plant with a capacity of 500 tonnes, to be built in two phases by its wholly owned subsidiary, HEG Graphene Materials Limited. The project carries a capital… Read More »HEG Advanced Materials approves a 500-tonne graphene plant as part of a battery materials expansion
Researchers at Yokohama National University, Yonsei University and 3DC have shown that graphene mesosponge (GMS), a three-dimensional, sponge-like graphene material, can improve ion transport in dense, high-loading lithium-ion battery cathodes. In their tests, an electrode… Read More »Graphene mesosponge outperforms carbon nanotubes as a conductive additive in high-loading Li-ion cathodes
VN Graphene Global has inaugurated its Graphene Production and Application Plant at Nhon Hoi A Industrial Park in Gia Lai province, Vietnam. The project represents a total investment of 202 billion VND (about US$7.8 million)… Read More »VN Graphene Global inaugurates its graphene production plant in Gia Lai
Researchers at Cornell University, the National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have found new superconducting and magnetic states in rhombohedral hexalayer graphene, a… Read More »Six-layer rhombohedral graphene shows new superconducting and electrically switchable magnetic states
Researchers at the University of Regensburg, Philipps University of Marburg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) and RWTH Aachen University have directly imaged how the electric field of a light pulse drives electrons… Read More »New technique films light-driven quantum tunneling of electrons in graphene
Venture firm Global Brain has led a new funding round in AirMembrane, a Japanese developer and manufacturer of graphene pellicles for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Global Brain invested through its Global Brain Flagship Fund IX.… Read More »AirMembrane raises funding to prepare mass production of graphene EUV pellicles
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and TU Dresden, led by Ralf Schützhold, director of the HZDR Institute of Theoretical Physics, have proposed a new way to extract electrical current from light absorbed by graphene,… Read More »Voltage-defined “guardrails” could let graphene separate light-generated charges
Perpetuus Advanced Materials has announced the results of an industrial production assessment of its surface-engineered graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) masterbatch in truck and bus radial (TBR) tire production. The company says the masterbatch eliminated two mixing… Read More »Perpetuus graphene masterbatch could save tire makers about 165 kWh per ton of compound
Argo Graphene Solutions has provided an update on its plan to build a commercial-scale graphene refinery in the Chicago, Illinois area. The company says it is in the final stages of securing a facility to… Read More »Argo Graphene advances plans for a commercial graphene refinery near Chicago