Descrizione del progetto
Il grafene potrebbe presto decollare nei compositi
Il grafene può migliorare la conduttività e la forza dei materiali sfusi, nonché contribuire a creare compositi con qualità superiori. Tuttavia, la sua fascia di prezzo elevata (tra i 2 800 e i 7 600 euro al kg) rappresenta un ostacolo. Per affrontare questo problema, l’azienda Nanografi Nano Teknoloji, con sede in Turchia, ha sviluppato un metodo di produzione del grafene semplice, economico ed ecocompatibile, fornendo al grafene una buona occasione nell’industria dei compositi. Il progetto GREENGRAPHENE, finanziato dall’UE, ha consentito all’azienda di offrire un prodotto di nanopiastrine di grafene con le qualità desiderate al prezzo più basso possibile (inferiore a 50 euro al kg) con un aumento della produzione di fino a 300 tonnellate all’anno per i prossimi due anni. I prezzi potrebbero subire un’ulteriore riduzione con l’aumento della produzione.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
- 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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