Sparc Technologies and Levidian Nanosystems have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop and commercialize Sparc’s ecosparc graphene coating additive in the Middle East. The agreement covers protective and industrial coatings in the Gulf… Read More »Sparc and Levidian team up to bring graphene-enhanced protective coatings to the Middle East
Skeleton Technologies has announced a strategic investment from Siemens that brings its valuation to more than $1 billion. CEO Taavi Madiberk described it as a “9-digit investment round led by Siemens,” but the company has… Read More »Skeleton Technologies passes $1 billion valuation with a nine-figure investment led by Siemens
Researchers at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester have been awarded a £1.2 million (about US$1.6 million) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Standard Research Grant to investigate the electrical… Read More »Manchester researchers win grant to uncover water’s unusual electrical behavior in atom-thin channels
Researchers at Ontario Tech University in Canada have used graphene nanoplatelets to cool and protect a commercial lithium grease. They also built a machine learning framework that predicts how such greases heat up and wear… Read More »Adding 0.5% graphene to grease lowers its peak operating temperature by about 30%
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Argonne National Laboratory and Monash University have used graphene-like carbon dots made from coal to solve a long-standing… Read More »Coal-derived carbon dots help grow ultrathin insulating layers on graphene and MoS2 chips
Dana Gas and Levidian have started graphene production in Sharjah, after commissioning the first LOOP 20 unit at the Sharjah Graphene Park. The unit is reportedly running at full capacity, with an annual output above… Read More »Dana Gas and Levidian start graphene production from methane in Sharjah
Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has reported new cycling data for its fast-charging graphene aluminium-ion cells, which it is developing with Rio Tinto under a joint development agreement. The 1.5 Ah cells were built and tested… Read More »GMG’s fast-charging graphene battery holds up through 1,000 cycles in new tests
Researchers at the University of Manchester, the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and Multi Channel Systems (Germany) have used graphene micro-transistor arrays to map how… Read More »Graphene sensors read stroke damage from the shape of brain electrical waves
The European MINIGRAPH project, funded by the European Innovation Council and coordinated by ICN2, has wrapped up with results on graphene neural probes and a robotic way to implant them. The consortium also included INBRAIN… Read More »INBRAIN and partners pair graphene brain probes with a magnetically guided implantation robot
First Graphene has received an initial purchase order from US-based Flux Footwear, its first production application in athletic footwear. Flux will use the company’s PureGRAPH graphene additive in its Graphene XT performance gym shoes and… Read More »First Graphene’s PureGRAPH enters sports shoes with first Flux Footwear order