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New industrial partners join the Graphene Flagship
11 new industrial partners join the Graphene Flagship as a result of an open Expression of Interest to bring in complementary competences and capabilities in specific areas, such as aerostructures manufacturing, biosensors, and supercapacitors.
11 new industrial partners join the Graphene Flagship as a result of an open Expression of Interest to bring in complementary competences and capabilities in specific areas, such as aerostructures manufacturing, biosensors, and supercapacitors.
The Graphene Flagship’s overriding goal is to take graphene and related materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionise multiple industries. This requires the focus of the Flagship to evolve over the years, placing more resources in areas where this transition is more likely.
“These Expressions of Interest are yet another step in the process of moving graphene from academic laboratories to society. The incoming companies will work closely with existing academic and industrial partners to facilitate this transition and strengthen the utilisation dimension of the Flagship” says Jari Kinaret, director of the Graphene Flagship.
The Expression of Interest is meant to align work already on-going with the overall aims of the Flagship, and to transfer specific know-how not available in the present consortium, while at the same time providing the new partners access to competencies already present in the Flagship. The new partners will be incorporated in the scientific and technological work packages of the core project under the planned Horizon 2020 phase (1 April 2016 – 31 March 2018).
The new partners of the Graphene Flagship are:
Photo: Jan-Olof Yxell, Chalmers University of Technology.
The Graphene Flagship’s overriding goal is to take graphene and related materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionise multiple industries. This requires the focus of the Flagship to evolve over the years, placing more resources in areas where this transition is more likely.
“These Expressions of Interest are yet another step in the process of moving graphene from academic laboratories to society. The incoming companies will work closely with existing academic and industrial partners to facilitate this transition and strengthen the utilisation dimension of the Flagship” says Jari Kinaret, director of the Graphene Flagship.
The Expression of Interest is meant to align work already on-going with the overall aims of the Flagship, and to transfer specific know-how not available in the present consortium, while at the same time providing the new partners access to competencies already present in the Flagship. The new partners will be incorporated in the scientific and technological work packages of the core project under the planned Horizon 2020 phase (1 April 2016 – 31 March 2018).
The new partners of the Graphene Flagship are:
- ABB (Sweden) – Nanocomposites topic one
- AERNNOVA (Spain) – Aerostructures Manufacturer
- AIDO (Spain) – Nanocomposites topic three
- Alcatel-Lucent Italia (Italy) – Optoelectronics
- FIDAMC (Spain) – Nanocomposites topic two
- FlexEnable (UK) – Flexible Logic
- Infineon (Germany) – Electronic Devices
- M-Solv (UK) – Energy Applications
- NanOsc AB (Sweden) – Spintronics
- Novalia (UK) – Printed Prototypes
- Prognomics Ltd (UK) – Chemical Sensors
- Nanocomposites
- Electronic Devices
- Aerostructures Manufacturer
- Energy Applications
- Flexibel Logic
- Printed Prototypes
- Chemical Sensors
- Graphene Spintronics
Photo: Jan-Olof Yxell, Chalmers University of Technology.
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Graphene Flagship
Bringing together 118 academic and industrial partners in 12 research and innovation projects and 1 coordination and support project, the Graphene Flagship initiative will continue to advance Europe’s strategic autonomy in technologies that rely on graphene and other 2D materials. The initiative, which builds on the previous 10-years of the Graphene Flagship, is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. The 2D-Experimental Pilot Line, addressing the challenges of upscaling 2D material production processes for the semiconductor industry, is another key component of the Graphene Flagship eco-system.