Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the wordpress-seo domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6260 CPI to Establish Graphene Applications Innovation Centre - Ink World Magazine

What are you searching for?

Sign in
Flexible Electronics News

CPI to Establish Graphene Applications Innovation Centre

Will open later this year to provide facilities and expertise to help companies

Author Image

By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World, Coatings World and Ink World Magazine

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has been named as the home of a new £14 million Graphene Applications Innovation Centre. The new center will build on existing capabilities and will open later this year to provide facilities and expertise to help companies to develop, prove, prototype and scale up grapheme-based products and processes.

“Graphene is a very interesting material with great promise,” Nigel Perry, CEO of CPI said. “The new center will work alongside academic organizations such as the National Graphene Institute, graphene manufacturers and end users, to develop and prove commercial applications for a range of major industries. The new center will integrate with existing development facilities at CPI’s printable electronics and formulation centers based at Sedgefield, Co. Durham.”

“The UK has a strong position in the fundamental science of graphene and the new centre will increase the focus on exploring potential applications via the scale up of manufacturing processes for both material and products.
“If the UK is to create economic benefit from graphene it will require a concerted effort to become closer to market by proving that processes work at an industrial scale.”

Graphene, first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004, is tipped to transform many products. Its electrical and thermal conductivity, optical purity and mechanical strength could be used in high-capacity batteries, flexible screens, ultra-fast transistors and other electronic components, super-bright lasers and materials from sports equipment to aircraft wings.

CPI has been awarded the center due to its existing activities in the development and scale up of new products and processes, as well as its current work with graphene technologies and formulation.

Add us as a preferred source on Google

Get the latest Ink World magazine news, insights and analysis in your Google Search and AI experiences.

Add Ink World magazine as a preferred source on Google (opens in a new tab)

Keep Up With Our Content. Subscribe To Ink World magazine Newsletters