Materials of the future - Graphene and perovskites
Making progress in photovoltaics
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Graphene Flagship to showcase innovations at Enlit Europe
The Graphene Flagship will exhibit exciting graphene applications for the energy sector at Enlit Europe, from 29 November to 1 December 2022 in Frankfurt.
Graphene applications: GRAPES
The next generation of solar power is just around the corner. the solar cells created by the Graphene Flagship's GRAPES Spearhead Project are a unique fusion of silicon and perovskite technologies, enhanced by graphene.
SMENA Catalysis AB develops layered materials with bespoke edges for gas sensing and hydrogen catalysis
The Swedish spin off pioneers a technology to control edges in transition metal dichalcogenides with close-to-atomic precision
Graphene applications: Circuitbreakers
The CircuitBreakers Spearhead Project, funded by the Graphene Flagship and led by industrial partners ABB, Nanesa and GraphMaTech AB, is developing a first-of-their-kind grease-free, maintenance-free, low-voltage circuit breakers for fault protection in key parts of the electrical grid.
You’ve got the power
The graphene technologies improving battery performance
New partnership between Steelhead Composites and Graphmatech to develop improved hydrogen storage tanks with graphene
Expected improvements include extreme temperature and pressure.
Graphene-enabled solar farm shines in performance
Solar panels comprising perovskite, graphene and related materials demonstrate their potential in outdoor tests.
Bright Day manufactures sustainable graphene from biomass
The Graphene Flagship proudly welcome Bright Day Graphene, our latest Associated Member. Founded in 2017, Bright Day Graphene AB, in Sweden, strives to offer high performing materials without harmful environmental impacts.
Graphene solar panels outperform commercial silicon cells
Graphene Flagship Spearhead Project GRAPES makes cost-effective and stable photovoltaic panels with graphene and layered materials
Towards new silicon-graphene car batteries
By the end of Graphene Flagship Core 3 in 2023, our Spearhead Project GrEEnBat plans to enter the four-year automotive development cycle with their battery module.
Graphene enables 3D-printed energy storage devices
Cecilia Mattevi was an invited speaker at Graphene Week 2021, where she showed us her exciting work on the 3D-printing of energy storage devices – with the help of graphene. "We are very interested in layered materials, in particular graphene, for energy applications" she says.
Discover the city of the future
High-tech materials such as graphene, which were once only available in laboratories, are now being used throughout cities in a variety of applications, to enable the effective deployment of smart city infrastructure.
Meet our scientist Vincenzo Palermo
In this interview, Palermo shares his views on research, innovation and collaboration, and speculates on where the next successes of graphene and related materials will come from.