Description du projet
Le graphène pourrait bientôt prendre son envol dans les composites
Le graphène peut améliorer la conductivité et la résistance des matériaux en vrac et contribuer à créer des composites de qualité supérieure. Toutefois, sa fourchette de prix élevée (de 2 800 à 7 600 EUR par kg) constitue un obstacle. Pour remédier à ce problème, la société turque Nanografi Nano Teknoloji a mis au point une méthode de production de graphène simple, rentable et écologique, qui offre au graphène une bonne opportunité dans l’industrie des composites. Le projet GREENGRAPHENE, financé par l’UE, a permis à la société de proposer un produit à base de nanoplaquettes de graphène présentant la qualité souhaitée au prix le plus bas possible (moins de 50 EUR par kg) lorsque la production sera portée à 300 tonnes par an dans les deux prochaines années. Les prix pourraient encore baisser à mesure que la demande augmentera.
Objectif
Graphene-based materials gained a lot of interest by researchers worldwide and a wide variety of applications has been developed from them in the last decade. There are more than 45000 patent applications recorded after the inventors of graphene were awarded with Nobel prize in 2010. Graphene’s applications extend from fast charging high capacity batteries to light-weight and high strength aircraft parts. Composite industry is the field that graphene can be quickly adapted because graphene can be produced in powder form similar to many of the other additives used in the composites industry. Composites industry is a €63.2 Billion market and it is expected to reach above €113,85 Billion within the next 5-6 years. Offering performance properties comparable with the current metallic and ceramic materials is the main motivation for the composite producers and costs of the additives in the market constitutes only 1% (>€1 Billion market for additives) of the overall costs.
The major obstacle that prevents the rapid initiation and adaption of graphene into the composites market is the price ranges (2800-7600 €/kg) of the material with desired quality. In order to overcome this obstacle, Nanografi developed a simple, disruptive, cost-effective and environment-friendly graphene production method (patent pending) and offered a good chance for graphene in the composites industry. The developed method offers graphene nanoplatelet product with high quality and offering the lowest price range (<€85/kg graphene) after the production is scaled up to 100 tonnes/year within 5 years. The price offers can go down further as the demand increased. To conclude, in GREENGRAPHENE Project, Nanografi aims to bring its high quality graphene product which we produce by our highly innovative method to the composites market and prepare technical/ economical feasibility reports for increasing the use of graphene in the composites industry.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronics
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materialstwo-dimensional nanostructuresgraphene
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
06800 ANKARA
Turquie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.