Is graphene starting to live up to its hype?
Summary
TLDRDas Skript beleuchtet die Faszination des Graphenmaterials, das 2004 entdeckt wurde und für seine herausragenden Eigenschaften bekannt ist, wie seine 30-mal höhere Empfindlichkeit gegenüber Silizium und das tausendfache geringer Energieverbrauch. Es erzählt die Geschichte von Graphen von der Isolierung bis hin zur heutigen Anwendung in Sensoren und elektronischen Geräten. Unternehmen wie Paragraph setzen auf die Massenproduktion von Graphen-basierten Elektronik und erforschen seine Anwendung in Hall-Effekt-Sensoren und Biosensoren, die die Welt der Medizin revolutionieren könnten. Die Zukunft von Graphen und 2D-Materialien verspricht eine Transformation in der Elektronik und Verbrauchsgüterproduktion, mit dem Potenzial, die Welt zu verändern.
Takeaways
- 📈 Graphen ist 30-mal empfindlicher als Silizium und verbraucht tausend Mal weniger Energie, was auf ein rasantes Fortschrittstempo der Technologie hindeutet.
- 🔍 Graphen wurde 2004 entdeckt und galt als Material mit dem Potenzial, die Welt zu verändern, aber es hat einige Zeit gedauert, bis seine Verwendung in elektronischen Geräten durchgeführt wurde.
- 🏗️ Die Firma Paragraph, gegründet von Professor Sollins Humph, ist eine der weltweit ersten Unternehmen, die Graphen-basierte Elektronik in Massen produzieren.
- 🛠️ Graphen wird in vielseitigen Anwendungen eingesetzt, darunter Betonverstärkung, Laufschuhe, Tennisschläger und viele andere Produkte, aber die Versprechen von schnelleren Transistoren und Computern ist bisher nicht erfüllt worden.
- 🧪 Graphen wurde durch Zufall entdeckt, als Wissenschaftler Sir Andre Geim und Sir Konstantine Novoselov das sogenannte Klebezapf-Verfahren anwendeten, um Kohlenstoff in Form von Diamant und Graphit zu untersuchen.
- 💡 Graphen ist ein 2D-Material, das starke, transparente, flexibel und hervorragenden elektrische sowie thermische Leiterfähigkeiten besitzt.
- 🔬 Professor Humphs Forschergruppe entwickelte eine neue Methode, um Graphen herzustellen, was es ermöglichte, das Material in elektronischen Geräten zu verwenden.
- 🌐 Das Unternehmen Paragraph produziert unter anderem magnetfeldsensitive Sensoren, die auf dem Hall-Effekt basieren und in verschiedenen Anwendungen eingesetzt werden können.
- 🛡️ Graphen-Sensoren bieten Vorteile gegenüber herkömmlichen Materialien, da sie empfindlicher, energieeffizienter und in der Lage sind, bei sehr niedrigen Temperaturen verwendet zu werden.
- 🧬 Graphen-Biensoren könnten die Diagnostik von Infektionen revolutionieren, indem sie die Unterscheidung von Bakterien und Viren sowie die schnelle Erkennung von Sepsis ermöglichen.
- 🌿 Die Anwendung von Graphen in der Konstruktionsindustrie könnte die Nachhaltigkeit verbessern, da es die Leistung von Baustoffen in Bezug auf Wärmeisolierung und Gewicht steigern kann.
Q & A
Was ist Graphen und warum ist es so sensibel?
-Graphen ist ein Kohlenstoff-Nanomaterial, bestehend aus einem einzigen Atom dickem Kohlenstoff-Netzwerk in einer hexagonalen Anordnung. Es ist sehr sensibel, da seine Leitungselektronen ober- und unterhalb der 2D-Kohlenstoffebene fließen, was zu einer hohen Elektronenmobilität führt.
Was sind die Haupteigenschaften von Graphen?
-Graphen besitzt eine Vielzahl an herausragenden Eigenschaften: Es ist sehr stark, transparent, der beste elektrische Leiter der Welt, ein guter Wärmeleiter, flexibel und nur ein Atom dick.
Welche Herausforderung musste überwunden werden, bevor Graphen in Elektronik verwendet werden konnte?
-Bevor Graphen in der Elektronik genutzt werden konnte, musste eine Methode gefunden werden, um Graphen in größeren Mengen und größeren Flächen herzustellen. Dies gelang erst, als das Unternehmen 'Paragraph' eine neue Herstellungsmethode entwickelte.
Was ist der Hall-Effekt und wie wird er in den von 'Paragraph' hergestellten Sensoren verwendet?
-Der Hall-Effekt ist ein Phänomen, bei dem in einem Material mit bewegten Ladungsträgern, das in einem magnetischen Feld liegt, ein Spannungsdifferenzial entsteht. 'Paragraph' nutzt diesen Effekt in ihren Sensoren, um den Stärke des magnetischen Feldes zu messen.
Welche Anwendungen hat der von 'Paragraph' entwickelte Hall-Effekt-Sensor?
-Der Hall-Effekt-Sensor kann in einer Vielzahl von Anwendungen eingesetzt werden, darunter die Erkennung von magnetischen Feldern, die Bestimmung von Defekten in Elektrofahrzeug-Batterien, die medizinische Anwendungen und die Hochleistungsphysikforschung.
Was sind die Vorteile von Graphen-basierten Sensoren im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Materialien?
-Graphen-basierte Sensoren sind sehr empfindlich gegenüber magnetischen Feldern, was eine präzise Messung ermöglicht. Sie sind auch Energieeffizienter und können bei sehr niedrigen Temperaturen verwendet werden, was sie ideal für Anwendungen in MRI-Geräten und Quantencomputern macht.
Was ist ein Graphen-Biosensor und wie schnell kann er Ergebnisse liefern?
-Ein Graphen-Biosensor ist ein Sensor, der Graphen zur Detektion von Viren und Bakterien verwendet. Er kann Ergebnisse sehr schnell liefern, in etwa 10 bis 20 Minuten, im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen Methoden, die 24 bis 48 Stunden benötigen.
Welche Rolle spielt Graphen in der Entwicklung neuer 2D-Materialien?
-Graphen war das erste entdeckte 2D-Material und hat damit die Grundlage für die Erforschung und Entwicklung weiterer 2D-Materialien gelegt. Es gibt nun Theorie von über 5000 solcher Materialien, von denen einige hundert tatsächlich hergestellt wurden.
Was sind die möglichen Anwendungen von Graphen in der Bauindustrie?
-In der Bauindustrie kann Graphen verwendet werden, um Membranen für die Wasserfiltration und Desalination zu entwickeln sowie für Beschichtungen, die für Verpackungen und zum Verhindern von Rost verwendet werden können.
Wie wird Graphen in der Batterietechnologie eingesetzt?
-Graphen kann in Batterien verwendet werden, um die Speicherkapazität zu erhöhen, den Energieausgangsstrom zu verbessern und Kurzschläge sowie Diazidwachstum zu reduzieren, was die Sicherheit von Lithium-Batterien erhöht.
Was ist das Ziel des 'Graphene Engineering Innovation Center' (GEIC)?
-Das GEIC konzentriert sich auf die Anwendung von Graphen und 2D-Materialien in industriellen Anwendungen. Es arbeitet eng mit der Universität Manchester zusammen und betreibt Forschung und Entwicklung, um diese Materialien in Produkte und Anwendungen umzusetzen.
Was sind die Vorteile von Graphen in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit und Energieeffizienz?
-Graphen ist ein sehr energieeffizientes Material. Seine Sensoren sind 30-mal empfindlicher als Silizium-Sensoren, verbrauchen aber tausendmal weniger Energie. Dies kann dazu beitragen, die Energieverbrauchsraten in elektronischen Geräten drastisch zu reduzieren.
Outlines
🚀 Graphene-Revolution: Neue Materialien verändern die Welt
Dieses Kapitel stellt die Sensibilität und Energieeffizienz von Graphen in Bezug auf Silicon dar, und wie die Entdeckung von Graphen 2004 versprach, die Welt zu verändern. Es führt durch die Geschichte von Graphen, von der Isolierung durch Andre Geim und Konstantin Novoselov in Manchester über die Herausforderungen der Materialnutzung in Elektronik bis hin zur Gründung von 'Paragraf', einem Unternehmen, das auf der Massenproduktion von Graphen-basierten Elektronik basiert. Die Bedeutung von Graphen für die Entwicklung schnellerer Transistoren und die Rolle von Professor Sollil Humph als Mitbegründer und Chief Scientific Officer werden hervorgehoben.
🔬 Graphene-Produktion: Von der Forschung zum Markt
Dieses Kapitel beschreibt die Anfänge der kommerziellen Graphen-Produktion bei 'Paragraf', einschließlich der Herausforderungen und der geheimen Methode, wie Graphen auf Substraten aufgetragen wird. Es erläutert den Prozess der Herstellung von Graphen-Wafern und wie diese in tausend Devices aufgeteilt werden können. Zudem wird der Hall-Effekt-Sensor, der erste elektronische Gerät von 'Paragraf', vorgestellt, der auf der Hall-Effekt-Prinzipien basiert und für die Erkennung von Magnetfeldern in verschiedenen Anwendungen eingesetzt werden kann.
🛠️ Anwendungen von Graphen: Von Biosensoren zu innovativen Materialien
Dieses Kapitel konzentriert sich auf die Anwendung von Graphen in Sensors, insbesondere in Biosensoren, die schnelle und genaue Ergebnisse liefern können, was die Diagnostik von Infektionen wie Sepsis revolutionieren könnte. Es diskutiert auch die Vorteile von Graphen in solchen Geräten, einschließlich der höheren Empfindlichkeit, geringen Energieverbrauch und der Anwendbarkeit in sehr kalten Umgebungen wie bei MRI-Geräten und Quantencomputern.
🏭 Die Zukunft von Graphen: Industrielle Anwendungen und nachhaltige Entwicklung
Dieses Kapitel betont die Bedeutung von Graphen für die Industrie und die nachhaltige Entwicklung. Es stellt das Graphen-Engineering-Innovations-Zentrum (The GEIC) vor, das sich auf die Anwendung von Graphen in industriellen Anwendungen konzentriert und wie die Forschung von der Universität Manchester in diese Anwendungen einfließt. Es diskutiert auch die Rolle von Graphen in Batterie-Technologie und die Herausforderungen und Chancen, die mit der Skalierung der Graphen-Produktion verbunden sind.
🏠 Graphen in der Konstruktion: Nachhaltige und leistungsstarke Lösungen
Dieses Kapitel erörtert die Verwendung von Graphen in der Bauindustrie, insbesondere in innovativen Materialien, die zur Verbesserung der thermischen Effizienz und zur Verringerung des gesamten Gewichts von Konstruktionen beitragen. Es präsentiert das Unternehmen Vector Homes, das modulare, erschwingliche Häuser plant, die Graphen verwenden, um die Umweltauswirkungen zu verringern und die thermische Leistung zu erhöhen.
🌐 Die Zukunft der 2D-Materialien: Von der Forschung bis hin zu Weltverändernden Anwendungen
Dieses Kapitel schließt die Serie ab, indem es die zukünftigen Anwendungen von Graphen und anderen 2D-Materialien diskutiert. Es zeigt die Fortschritte in der Entwicklung von Graphen-Halbleitern und die potenziellen Durchbrüche, die diese Materialien in der Elektronikbranche hervorrufen können. Zudem werden die Anwendungen von Graphen in der Medizin und Computertechnologie hervorhegt und die Hoffnung, dass diese Entdeckungen die Welt verändern können.
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Keywords
💡Graphen
💡Hall-Effekt
💡Transistor
💡Energieverbrauch
💡2D-Materialien
💡Biosensor
💡Skalierbarkeit
💡Nachhaltigkeit
💡Innovation
💡Energieeffizienz
Highlights
Graphine ist 30-mal empfindlicher als Silizium und verbraucht tausend Mal weniger Energie.
Graphine wurde 2004 entdeckt und galt als Material mit revolutionärem Potenzial.
Professor Sollil Humph ist Mitgründer und Chefwissenschaftlicher Offizier von Paragraph, einer Graphine-basierten Elektronikfirma.
Graphine wird in Beton, Sportschuhen, Tennisschlägern und vielen anderen Produkten verwendet.
Die Versprechen von schnelleren Transistoren und Computern durch Graphine ist bisher nicht erfüllt worden.
Die Isolierung von Graphine im Jahr 2004 führte zu neuen Erkenntnissen über Kohlenstoffallotrope wie Diamant und Graphit.
Graphine ist ein 2D-Material mit einzigartigen Eigenschaften wie Stärke, Transparenz, elektrischer Leitfähigkeit und Flexibilität.
Professor Humphs Forschergruppe entwickelte eine neue Methode zur Herstellung von Graphine.
Paragraph ist eine der weltweit ersten Firmen, die Graphine-basierte elektronische Geräte in Massen produzieren.
Das Unternehmen verwendet eine geheime Prozessmethode, bei der Kohlenstoffgas in einem geschlossenen Reaktor reagiert, um hochreines Graphine abzubilden.
Paragraph produziert einen Magnetfeldsensor, der auf dem Hall-Effekt basiert und für verschiedene Anwendungen verwendet werden kann.
Graphine-Sensoren haben den Vorteil, sehr empfindlich zu sein und weniger Energie zu verbrauchen.
Graphine-Biensoren könnten die Diagnose von Infektionen wie Sepsis revolutionieren, indem sie schnelle Ergebnisse liefern.
Das Graphene Engineering Innovation Center (GEIC) konzentriert sich auf die Anwendung von 2D-Materialien in der Industrie.
Graphine kann in Batterien eingesetzt werden, um Speicherkapazität, Leistungsabgabe und Sicherheit zu verbessern.
Die Skalierbarkeit der Graphine-Produktion war ein großes Hindernis, das jedoch durch innovative Verfahren überwunden wurde.
Graphine und andere 2D-Materialien haben das Potenzial, die Elektronik-, Gesundheitswesen- und Bauindustrie zu revolutionieren.
Die Zukunft von Graphine und 2D-Materialien sieht vielversprechend aus, mit Entwicklungen, die die Welt verändern könnten.
Transcripts
that graphine is 30 times more sensitive
than silicon but they consume a thousand
times less
energy technology is advancing at an
exponential rate with new breakthroughs
and Innovations all the time but it's
not everyday a new material comes along
with the potential to create a huge
difference when graphine was first
discovered in 2004 we were told the
so-called super material would change
the world but fast forward to the
present day and has the revolution
happened yet well I've come to a lab
near Cambridge one of the world's first
companies mass-producing graphine based
Electronics deceive
myself Professor sollin humph is the
co-founder and chief scientific officer
of paragraph a company designed around
graphine its mechanical properties are
being exploited ated and so it's being
added to concrete and meant to make it
stronger to TX in row to running shoes
to tennis rackets to a lot of products
like this and it has made inros into
these other areas but the real promise
of faster transistors just hasn't
happened and faster computers and and
faster mobile phones uh better energy
consumption none of these had happened
uh until we got
involved graphine was first isolated in
20 04 by scientists Professor sir Andre
gim and Professor sir Constantine
novoselov at the University of
Manchester during a chance Friday
afternoon experiment using the so-called
sticky tape
method carbon comes in many forms called
allotropes the most well-known being
diamond and
graphite in a diamond each carbon atom
is connected to four other carbon atoms
it's this extremely strong Arrangement
that makes Diamond one of the hardest
know
materials in graphite each atom is
linked to three others in layers of
hexagonal shapes the bonds within the
hexagonal sheets are strong but each
layer is only weakly attracted to the
next which allows the layers to slip by
one
another if you peel away layers of
graphite you end up with a monolayer
honeycomb lattice of graphine which is a
single atom thick which is why it's
known as a two-dimensional
material it's very strong it's
transparent um it's the best electrical
conductor in the world it's a very good
thermal conductor it's flexible and all
these properties are in a single
material and so people are really
excited about
it but there was a problem to overcome
before graphine could be used in
electronics in 2015 Professor humph was
working on another material in Cambridge
when a PhD student asked to focus on
graphine I give her a piece of Gallum
nitride and I send her up to Manchester
uh to meet the Nobel Prize winner there
and he gives her a little plastic box
and he says inside this box there's a
piece of graphine and what I want you to
do he said is to make a transistor By
Hand by putting this graphine on top of
the gum nitrate and push some contacts
on and she looks in the box and she says
there's nothing there right and he said
that's because it's transparent right
and she spends a month trying to find
this thing by Fe as it were with
tweezers and then and then you know
assemble by hand and she cannot do it
and so I then get on the phone to cost
noos off this Nobel Prize winner and I
say cost I Supply some gum nitr which is
2 in in diameter please can you supply a
piece of graphine which is 2 in in
diameter because even though it's
transparent you know there's a chance
she can assemble a transistor by hand
and he Roars with laughter and I say
Costa this other on the end of the phone
I say Costa why are you laughing and he
said because device quality graphine 2
in in diameter doesn't exist anywhere in
the world and because I hadn't worked in
graphine before I didn't know that and
he said there's just the tiny
flakes so Professor Humphrey set his
research group a task to find a new way
of making graphine and then one of my
senior postdocs who's now the CEO of
this company um paragraph uh he came to
me uh after about a month and he said
Colin I've had an idea of a new way of
making graphine and we made this large
area graphine and then we made the first
prototype what's called a h effect
Center which paragraph is in
manufacturing but uh you know for very
little money and I happen to have the
right equipment and the right people at
the right time and we did this work
the two postdocs were Simon Thomas now
the CEO of paragraph and Iva gy the
group's technical director paragraph is
one of the world's first companies to
mass-produce graphine based electronic
devices oh wow this is an impressive bit
of Kit what's happening here so we're
just unloading the graphine samples here
so each of those 2in Wafers has a single
monol layer of graphine on it and this
is how it looks and it as deposited form
that's the graphine in each wafer each
on each substrate yeah there are 31
wafers in here and um you can get over a
thousand devices easily on a 2-in wafer
like this so we're talking High numbers
some of our reactors will be used for
kind of high throughput high uniformity
more production grade things and some of
them will be used more for research and
development so looking at smaller
quantities of devices um and tailoring
them to new applications and what's the
process how dides that happen here we
can see the fresh substrates being
loaded in ready to be deposited with the
graphine so they'll be loaded into here
and then um it will be closed down and
once it's closed down there'll be a
series of uh conditions that are needed
for the process to take place so
basically some chemical precursors will
um enter the environment with the
substrates and the reactions that go on
in there is what leads to the graphine
being
deposited the exact process is a secret
but it works something like this a
variety of gases containing carbon are
injected into a chamber the gases mix
when they hit a substrate which has been
heated to over 1,000°
C hydrogen is released and the carbon
atoms skate around until they find each
other and Link in a honeycomb array
leaving a layer of high Purity graphine
on the
wafer what makes this method unique when
you grow directly on your chosen
substrate instead of on something else
and then transferring the graphine later
you can keep that graphine more intact
and more protected and less contaminated
by the different processing steps that
you would need to move it around being
able to grow on larger and larger areas
of substrate will enable us to scale up
and make millions of devices at a
time the first electronic device
paragraph is producing is a magnetic
field sensor which works on what's known
as the hall effect so here you can you
can see an illustration of the
processing steps involved to take
graphine from its on wafer state to a
finished device that can be used in
different applications so here we can
see a wafer much like what we saw in the
reactor where there's a single layer of
carbon atoms across that whole 2-in
wafer so the graphine goes through
various stages including adding other
materials that are needed for the device
structure we need to be able to contact
to that device so that's where the
metallization step comes in and you can
see some contacts have been added there
they connect the graphine to the rest of
the system the devices are then
singulated to give individual die with
one device on each one and these are
then placed into protective packaging
and again this would all be connected
with wire bonds so that you can measure
with the device and what do the visuals
here on the screen show so this
animation here shows how the whole
effect works in our sensor so if you
imagine that red material there is the
graphine and we have a current traveling
in one direction through the material
when that goes into a magnetic field as
you can see coming in here the moving
charge carriers are all experiencing a
force that def FS them over to one side
of the material so that causes lots of
charge on one side and less charge on
the other side so we measure that
potential difference across the device
that's shown by the voltmeter moving
here and the amount of voltage that we
measure from that potential difference
depends on the field strength and the
sensitivity of our material so we can
use a device where we know the
sensitivity to work out the strength of
the magnetic field and you could move it
around or use lots of different devices
to map a field effectively how is this
being used out there in the real world
so you could use the sensor in a variety
of applications where you need to either
detect a magnetic field and that could
be something really simple like whether
a door is open or closed and you can use
that in things like electric car
batteries to work out where there are
defects and prevent fires from happing
or it could be used to map a very
precise magnetic field such as you might
need for medical applications or high
level physics research what are the
advantages of using graphine in these
devices compared to the materials that
are currently more widely used used
graphine has loads of really beneficial
properties for using in a hall sensor so
the material itself is really sensitive
to magnetic fields which means that we
get a really good strong response and we
can measure the fields very precisely
the fact that graphine is only a single
layer of atoms means that it's not
experiencing any through thickness
effects in the material so you get a
much cleaner measurement of that
magnetic field and graphing devices can
also consume much less power so in the
move towards more energy efficient
devices graphine could really play a
role with its integration
another Advantage is that it can be used
at very low temperatures which makes it
ideal for use of machines like MRI
scanners and quantum
computers once the sensor has been
assembled they're checked here and then
tested under liquid nitrogen the hall
sensors use a very small Cross of
graphine between four metal contacts as
seen here under a microscope paragraph
is also producing another type of sensor
a very exciting project being product
being made here is a biosensor graphine
biosensor is very very fast and can give
you rapid results and we believe that
you can uh distinguish between viruses
and bacteria you can distinguish other
different types of bacteria different
types of viruses so there's something
called sepsis which kills lots of people
and to detect sepes at the moment you
have to take a swab say saliva and you
culture it and you culture the bacteria
or viruses there and you then do
analysis in electron microscope and that
takes 24 to 48 hours we believe with a
graphine biosensor you could determine
that in maybe 10 or 20 minutes so it's
going to change the world it's going to
save
lives Dr Martin Tyler is quality
checking a batch of new bio sensors this
is what the Wafers look like when they
come out of our Fab we produce 32
devices on a 2in wafer that's kind of
one device there and then that's another
one so it's six rows and six columns
seven so after this it will get sent
through a cleaving process to singulate
the dies so they then get attached to a
PCB so that's a single device there uh y
bonded out these tracks and then that
whole chip and wire bonded assembly gets
coated in an epoxy main to protect the
wire bonds but with the added benefit it
also produces this kind of um cavity or
well that we can leave liquid in during
our test what are the benefits of using
graphing in this way so traditionally um
in these sort of devices you'd be using
you know 3D bulk materials um and one of
the key improvements you get from
graphing is that because it's a 2d
material it's essentially all surface
area so any changes to the surface is
really a change to the entirety of the
material so you get an enhanced
sensitivity because of
that this enhanced sensitivity allows
for faster detection than traditional
devices it's also possible to detect
more than one virus or bacteria on a
single
device research is still underway to
incorporate graphing into computers
which should make them much faster but
there is another Advantage
too it turns out that graphine is
extremely energy efficient and the uh
these magnetic sensors I was just
talking about before they're 30 times
more sensitive than silicon but they
consume a thous thousand times less
energy and so if we can make transistors
as in computers from from graphine from
other two Dimension materials then
they'll save a lot of
energy the reason graphine consumes such
a low amount of energy is due to
electricity flowing through a layer of
conduction electrons which exist above
and below its 2D layer of carbon atoms
and not inside the material itself as
would be the case in a 3D structure
and when graphing was discovered it was
the only material in the world in which
the conduction electrons moved on the
surface since then we found another set
of two-dimensional materials and
theoretically I think 5,000 are now been
found in theory and only you know a few
hundred are been made of these special
materials where the conductions just on
the surface and we expect all of those
will be low energy consumption materials
so if you look at say what's going to be
the future of paragraph and and the
future of graphing the future of
graphing is to look at other two
materials as well because for certain
sorts of transistors they may be even
better than graphing and so yeah that's
a huge prize for two-dimensional
materials and may help us save next
zero graphine was the first example of a
2d material in the real world many more
have since been discovered such as
borine Pine phosphorene goldine and
pluming which each have their own set of
unique properties and there are many
more yet to be
found 20 years since graphine was
discovered the so-called Wonder material
is slowly starting to live up to the
original hype Manchester has become the
UK's home of graphine and 2D materials
research opening the National graphine
Institute in 2015 and the graphine
engineering Innovation Center known as
The Geek in in
2018 John Whitaker is the group's
engineering director where are we and
what is the work you're doing here so
the this building is the graphine
engineering and Innovation Center uh
it's heavily focused on Industrial
applications so we're a part of the
University of Manchester we work with
our academic colleagues uh we say we're
are industry-led here so industry
dictates the work that we do in here but
we also respect a huge amount of
graphine research and 2D material
research at the University of Manchester
of which we get a constant academic feed
and this is quite important for industry
going forward so we use graphine as one
example uh isolated 20 years ago
National graphine Institute 10 years ago
has now been feeding into applications
we've set up the pipeline here at
Manchester uh to do that with other 2D
materials the reason why the graphine
engineering and innovation Center is
unique throughout uh the world is that
it focuses on that application that
proof of concept to the Prototype but
working with the supply chain and The
Regulators to ease the adoption here we
are speaking 20 years on there was much
said at the time about the potential for
this material to completely
revolutionize the way we live and work
has that happened has it lived up to the
height yes it has um in the last
certainly in the last 5 years we've been
delivering uh graphine and 2D materials
Technologies to a huge uh wide range of
industrial
applications we're now reaching the
stage where real applications and
products are starting to emerge when a
new material kind of comes along that
can add value industry has to verify the
data so it's got to be safe to use got
to be safe to employ safe to work with
and we're going through those
application processes now it's called
regulat compliance
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apart from Electronics graphine is
mostly incorporated into another
material to lighten and strengthen it
it's been used in building materials
such as concrete consumer products such
as plastic bottles and in trainers and
also in the automotive and Aerospace
Industries an estimated 40 million
products now contain graphine one of the
big obstacles in bringing it to Market
was the scalability of graphine
production
the good thing is only a small amount is
needed for most products one example of
graphine I like is 1 gr of graphine will
cover a surface area of over 2,600
square
m that's roughly the size of 10 tennis
courts you only need a very very small
amount of graphine in a system for
example like a polymer or a battery
system to have a significant effect uh
and that's what we find in applications
today the geek Focus focuses on working
with industry and has six application
Laboratories one area it's hoped
graphine can make a difference is
sustainability Dr Nikki sajani is the
energy applications manager when you
think about graphine first being
discovered back in 2004 its use in
better battery life was one of the big
properties we heard being talked about
has that really happened so this is the
biggest challenge at the moment with the
world pushing away from fossil fuels
Battery Technology has been developed
through an astonishing speed the problem
is is implementing something as graphine
which which was still not well
understood at the time was difficult now
that graphine has become a more
established material there is now a
clearer drive to get graphine materials
into Battery Technology how is graphine
actually used in these batteries a
battery is not a simple system it's a
number of components that are combined
together that have to work
synergetically to actually give the
performance of the battery what graphing
can do is it can improve performances of
each component of a battery so if you're
looking at storage capacity graphine
helps increase it you're looking at
Power delivery graphine allows for a
higher power output without increasing
the resistive losses it also helps
reduce short circuits and dite growth
which is one of the biggest dangers of
lithium batteries which can cause fires
and thermal runways so without being
specific it can help every component of
the
battery incor operating graphine into
batteries may solve one of the biggest
obstacles in the transition to Greener
modes of Transport electric vehicle
range anxiety this is the concern about
how far the vehicle can travel between
each charge one of the bigger drivers
for energy reset has being able to
achieve the ranges that you can with
internal combustion engine that 600
800,000 mile range graphing can help
push that towards that in the short term
but in the long term it will also allow
for the generation
of batteries that can achieve th plus
miles as well as the different
application Laboratories the geek offers
facilities to scale up and test products
at larger sizes so welcome to the the
geek pilot Hall this is where we take
our upscale activity so we've been to
see some of our Laboratories where we go
through the small scale to the one liter
we start to go into the more industrial
scale applications so as you can see
we've got a lot of kind of overhead
crane here a lot of what we called
company R&D how rare is it to have this
amount of space uh dedicated to getting
graphing app it is it is very rare to
have all the applications Under One Roof
so there's a a number of applications
that are in our application Laboratories
but then to have a pilot Hall this
allows us to drisk uh what we call uh
applications drisk scale if you think of
a company who then gets to a trial at 1
kg 10 kg 20 kg they have then got to
start to accelerate this into a
production the geek operates a
partnership model at different tier
levels offering companies including
small to medium Enterprises access to a
wide range of specialist resources to
help bring their products to Market one
such company is Vector homes Vector
homes is really looking at two of the
big you know challenges which our world
faces today so the climate crisis and
and housing inequality we had this kind
of shared Vision around how graphine
could be incorporated into some of these
waste stream materials to produce
something that is impacting you know you
us our generation of of of of people and
take me through the steps in which
graphing is being used in their
production of of the homes you're making
what we're particularly interested on is
looking at the elements of things like
insulation or or non-structural elements
where we can make improvements in their
efficiency particularly around their
thermal efficiency um but also looking
at ways which we can do that where we
reduce the embodied carbon that's
associated with so we're looking at the
whole life carbon of buildings so
graphine is generally found in form of a
powder or in sheets uh we don't produce
graphine so we buy graphine in from
supplies like first graphine um usually
in the form not of powder but of
something like what's called a master
batch so that would be a material like
this where it's already been loaded into
a a carrier material in this case this
is high density polyeth
um so there it is is safe I'm fine to
handle it with with with touch and it
it's not a Airborne or anything like
that um and then what we do is we then
combine that with in this case things
like postc consumer recycled plastic
combining them together with an
extrusion process and producing uh
materials in the form of pellets these
can then be formed into structures with
injection molding or further Extrusion
processes or even Ching processes as
well so we can produce a quite wide
variety of structures that all contain
that beginning Gra
2024 is a big year for Vector homes
they've just built a prototype of their
affordable and modular home which they
plan to roll out later in the year what
are the wider benefits of using graphine
for the construction industry and for
house building the critical thing for us
is one is is the multi-functional
aspects that it brings so as a general
statement what we're trying to do is
reduce the overall weight or the overall
mass of construction that's one of the
primary ways that can reduce its impact
on the environment so if we add in half
a perent to 1% of graphing interior but
can we save 20 or 30% of the overall
mass that we're we're adding whether
it's in foundations in structures in
insulation um and then you build on top
so that gives you one benefit but then
if you build on top of that that you can
then potentially enhance its thermal
resistance and so on then you get you
know this sort of multi-functional
cascade effect that that generates
multiple
benefits as well as in the construction
industry graphine shows much much
promise when it comes to membranes that
can be used for water filtration and
desalination and also Coatings which
could be used for packaging and
preventing rust many more 2D materials
have been discovered and are under
development with single element
materials such as borine Pine phosphine
and goldine but there are also 2D
materials made up of two elements J Jong
beun is CEO of nanop plexus a company
based at the geek developing the 2D
material
Maxine so we developed a material called
Maxine uh with gone from sourcing the
raw materials that are required to make
it and become the leading manufacturers
in the world at the moment and what is
it so the simplest way to explain it it
is a variation of what's people probably
commonly know as graphine so we mix in a
little B carbon based compound
material with a metallic so what we end
up getting is a powder like this that
has very close to metallic
properties the material is still in
development but potential uses include
batteries and energy applications and
for smart textiles where the metallic
properties can allow for sensory
feedback the discovery of graphine has
really um set the S of the the platform
for us to to be able to develop new Next
Generation materials and graphine is
still going to be one of that I think
it's a bit like in the kitchen where we
have the rack of spices and hes I think
it's going to be like that so every
different partners or industry members
are going to have different needs and
it's going to be choosing that specific
blend of whether that's graphine or
Maxine or blend of both that will allow
us to be able to meet the you know the
criteria the parameters that every
industry p is going to need
the UK is not alone in developing
graphine the US and China have also
invested heavily in the materials
research and China now produces the most
globally recently scientists from tianin
University made a breakthrough
developing the world's first working
graphine
semiconductor the team led by Professor
Marley with help from researchers at
Georgia Tech University found the
semiconductor about 10 times more
effective Ive than silicon when
tested 20 years on it seems the graphine
revolution is underway with many
exciting developments on the horizon but
perhaps a more accurate title is the 2D
materials transformation it's really
exciting to be working on this material
that has the power to revolutionize
electronics and to be some of the first
people to put that to use in real world
devices what does the future hold for
the work that you're doing here at
parable up and more widely how graphine
is being used well I think it is well
changing because you know bio sensors
can change the world of medicine and the
electronic devices here the the
transistors we want to make can change
our world of computer I mean it really
would make computers 2,000 times faster
but I think even more important than
that you know we could say we know on
the devices we're making here we save a
thousand times the electricity it's a
thousand times L consumption we think
the transistors of other two different
materials which we haven't yet made will
probably 100 times the lower energy
consumption that 100 times will make it
almost negligible when you use your
computer and so on so I think you know
we're really optimistic because what
we're doing here could be world changing
the huge abant
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