Skyrocketing Graphene Technology, 2014 & Beyond, China

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China’s Graphene industry set to skyrocket in 2014



Although many industry analysts have predicted that mass commercialization of graphene may still be years away due to a number of product and process obstacles, I disagree.

Earlier last year, the graphene-based capacitive touchscreen already started mass production in China, not to mention the Chinese smartphone maker AWIT INC sold out its first batch of 2000 units of graphene-smartphone AWIT AT26 priced at CNY 799 just recently. This supports my position that China’s graphene industry is not only well underway, but will skyrocket in 2014. Additionally, we should anticipate more graphene-based products to be launched on the consumer goods market later this year.

Fact — China has become the world’s biggest developer of graphene sector. Now let’s review what has happened with the graphene industry in China in the last year:

• On December 26th, the mass production of large area single-layer graphene sheets production line with an annual one-million square meters capacity (the first phase) has put into operation in a graphene industrial park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, which is mainly used for touch screens, flexible displays etc, according to Chongqing Morsh Technology. Chongqing graphene industrialization base is to focus on flexible touch-screen displays, electronic chips cooling components, electrode materials for lithium ion batteries, graphene transistors etc.
• On December 20th, China’s Ningbo Morsh Technology announced that it has begun operations the world’s largest mass production line of high-quality graphene material in Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province. The plant provided an annual capacity of 300-ton of graphene per year in the first phase, and after being constructed its second-phase project, which will have an annual productive capacity of 1,000 tons of graphene material. This marks the beginning of a new era for low-cost mass production of high quality graphene, while become an industrial raw material of large supply.
• On November 18th, associate with Jiangnan Graphene Research Institute, The Sixth Element(Changzhou) released that its first phase mass production line of high-quality graphene powder with an annual 100-ton capacity began operation in the country’s first graphene industrial park (Wuxi graphene industry park) in Wuxi City of Jiangsu Province. While a Chinese smartphone maker (located in Wuxi graphene industry park) AWIT INC, officially released on the same day that it has sold out its first batch of 2000 units of graphene-smartphone AWIT AT26 priced at CNY 799. This marks graphene material has been entered into the consumer goods market.
• On July 13th, China graphene industry technology innovation strategic alliance was formally established in Beijing. The Technology Innovation and Strategic Alliance of Graphene could not only set up the bridge for the provincial government and the graphene enterprises, but also help bring together all resources in the industry chain, innovation chain and service chain and enhance the development capability of the graphene industry, according to the official site.

“China is the most active” in developing commercial applications for graphene. Chinese government not only encouraged more provinces to form a coalition and promote the development of the industry, but also stepped up the work on designing related standards. Many local governments plans to promote the graphene industry as a characteristic and strategically leading sector, in order to build the city into a pioneer of graphene-related technological innovation and application, which issued a series of documents on boosting the graphene industry and driving the upgrading industries.

We have just witnessed the development of China’s graphene industry at an unprecedented rate in the past year, some graphene industrialization bases have been established in Wuxi, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Ningbo and Chongqing respectively.

The graphene has become the focus of various scientific research institutions and production enterprises in recent years. Despite an entire graphene industry in China is also still at the early stages and has not yet formed a complete industrial chain, however, with the cost of graphene material continuously declining and the continued strong growth in construction investment in graphene and related sector, trend shows that China’s graphene industry is gradually forming some emerging clusters, while it can be expected that this trend will become more and more obvious in the next few years.

“China is leading the world in the industrialization of graphene as it has begun mass production,” said Shi Haofei, a researcher with the Chongqing Research Institute with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, I believe that the fastest-growing demand for graphene is being driven by Chinese electronics manufacturers in this year, while China’s graphene industry starts to take off in 2014.

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Graphene Li-ion Power Batteries produced by China's Morsh Technology

10.06.2014

The world's largest production line with an annual capacity of 300-ton of graphene in operation

中国石墨烯年产300吨生产线投产 全球规模最大_凤凰军事

 

[cirr]

Graphene is，without a shadow of a doubt，a wonder of a material。

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Graphene is going to be huge.

 

[DragonEmpire]

Just don't dump it all over the world. Use the competitive advantage wisely not for short term gain.

 

[qwerrty]

Chinese Create Huge 40×40 Foot Graphene / Fiberglass 3D Printer – Planning on Constructing Homes

by Randall Desmond · June 25, 2014


“Bigger is better,” as the old adage goes. When it comes to a juicy steak, or a diamond ring, these words always hold true. When it comes to 3D printing, however, there still remains some debate.

The 2nd World 3D Printing Technology Expo was held in Qingdao, Shandong, China this past week (June 19-22). It featured thousands of individuals from China, United States, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and almost a dozen other countries. They were there to discuss the latest breakthroughs in 3D Printing, including possible applications, material use, business models and more.

Qingdao Unique Products Develop Co., Ltd, a company known for their high quality Desktop 2D and 3D Printers, apparently believes that the old catch phrase doesn’t only apply to gemstones and beef. They apparently believe it to hold true for 3D printers as well. The company was on hand at the 3D printing conference this past week to show off something quite amazing. They introduced what they refer to as the ‘World’s Largest’ 3D printer, which has an incredible X and Y axis of 12 meters (almost 40 feet) each.



This new gigantic 3D printer will set out on its first official task, of printing out a replica of the world famous “Temple of Heaven”, a religious building located in central Beijing. The replica will be 7 meters in diameter and 8 meters high, and is expected to take around 6 months to complete. Representatives from Qingdao were on hand to show off a mini-replica of the Temple of Heaven, in which they will be printing on their large 3D printer.


A mini-replica of the Temple of Heaven

In the future, this incredible printer may be used to construct homes and other buildings, as they have come up with a specially formulated printing material which uses a combination of graphene and fiberglass, to creating an extraordinarily strong printing material. The company plans to challenge the 3D printed canal house project currently on-going in the Netherlands.

“The project in the Netherlands is an interesting one, but we plan to eclipse it by making our buildings stronger and easier to print,” explained a representative of Qingdao to 3DPrint in an email.

Qingdao Unique Products believes that their printer is superior to the ones used in the Netherlands in that it will be able to print entire houses out in one go, rather than using 3D printed pieces that are then bonded together, like in the construction of the Dutch Canal House project. Qingdao’s buildings should be three times as strong because of their specially formulated printing material.

China has long been known for their extremely large 3D printers. It should be interesting to see how their 3D printing house project goes. Being able to print out buildings nearly 40 feet in diameter should be quite sufficient in the construction of some smaller homes. With this said, Qingdao may still create a larger printer in order to print even larger buildings in the future.

What do you think about this incredible new 3D printer? Would you want your house constructed with it? Discuss in the Large Chinese 3D printer forum thread on 3DPB.com

 

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Printing material(a mixture of graphene and fiberglass) is the key here.

 

[Fahad Khan 2]

6 month is long time

 

[cirr]

6 month is long time

too delicate and intricate to be done in a jiff。

 

[Edison Chen]

too delicate and intricate to be done in a jiff。

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6 days is more impressive.

 

[Obambam]

6 days is more impressive.

That's very impressive. Vietnam is clearly in a league of its own.

 

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Two Chinese firms have beaten global competition to launch phones with touch screens, batteries and thermal conduction incorporating graphene, a recently isolated material with outstanding electrical, chemical and mechanical properties.

A batch of 30,000 such phones was jointly put on sale by the Moxi and Galapad technology firms on Monday in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, Xinhua news agency reported.

The use of graphene can make touch screens more sensitive and prolong battery life by 50 percent, according to the producers.

The key technology for the new phones, which use the Android system and will sell for 2,499 yuan ($406) each, was developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice. It was first isolated in 2004. Scientists worldwide have been rushing to test it.

China leads the world in the mass production of graphene films for phone and computer touch screens. In 2013, a production line capable of producing tens of millions of graphene films every year went into operation in Chongqing.

 

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Graphene is a recently discovered wonder substance which is an extremely good conductor of heat and electricity. Since its discovery, scientists and researchers have been increasingly working on new products based on graphene. The excellent chemical, mechanical and electrical property of the material has opened up several areas where it can be used, one being the smartphone industry.

And it looks like, we have the first batch of graphene phones. The first smartphone made from graphene has unsurprisingly come from China. The country has over 2200 patent applications for the material as of 2014, nearly half of the world.

The phone manufactured and made available for sale by the company Galapad will be called as the SETTLER α. It will feature a 5.5-inch touch screen display made of graphene with full HD 1080p resolution. Graphene touch screens are much more sensitive than regular ones. Inside, there will be a 64-bit quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor along with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage. At the back, will be an 8MP camera and up front, there will be a 5MP shooter. Finally, it will also support 4G LTE networks for super fast internet speeds. Retail price is around $406.

There are a number of advantages of using graphene in smartphones. First of all, as mentioned above, the graphene made touch screens are much more sensitive and produce better colors. These touch screen panels can transmit up to 97.7% light. The use of graphene in batteries help increase the overall battery life and standby time of the device drastically. Finally, the material is a good conductor of heat and it helps reduce the temperature of the device to a maximum of 35 degree Celsius.

 

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China's first graphene touch phone with multi-layer & touch points released in Wuxi
OFweek | Posted: 20 Dec 2013, 17:10

China's first bigraphene touch phone with multi-layer and multi-touch points, which was developed and manufactured by a graphene company in Wuxi, has been officially released on December 18th with 1,000 units to be released in the first batch. This achievement marks graphene material has been entered into the new stage of application development and industrialization.

The screen of the bigraphene phone, with clarity and fast reaction speed, is lower-cost, higher performance , more flexible and more environmentally-friendly compared with tin indium oxide(the existing touch screen material of smart phone).

 

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Spacecraft built from graphene could run on nothing but sunlight

• 28 May 2015 by Jacob Aron
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GRAPHENE to the stars. The material with amazing properties has just had another added to the list. It seems these sheets of carbon one atom thick can turn light into action, maybe forming the basis of a fuel-free spacecraft.

Graphene was discovered accidentally by researchers playing with pencils and sticky tape. Its flat structure is very strong and conducts electricity and heat extremely well. Yongsheng Chen of Nankai University in Tianjin, China, and his colleagues have been investigating whether larger arrangements of carbon can retain some of these properties. Earlier this year they published details of a "graphene sponge", a squidgy material made by fusing crumpled sheets of graphene oxide.

While cutting graphene sponge with a laser, they noticed the light propelled the material forwards. That was odd, because while lasers have been used to shove single molecules around

, the sponge was a few centimetres across so should be too large to move.

The team placed pieces of graphene sponge in a vacuum and shot them with lasers of different wavelength and intensity. They were able to push sponge pieces upwards by as much as 40 centimetres. They even got the graphene to move by focusing ordinary sunlight on it with a lens.

But how was this movement happening? One explanation is that the material acts like a solar sail. Photons can transfer momentum to an object and propel it forwards, and in the vacuum of space this tiny effect can build up enough thrust to move a spacecraft. Just last week, the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California, launched a small solar sail to test the technology. But the forces the team saw were too large to come from photons alone.

The team also ruled out the idea that the laser vaporises some of the graphene and makes it spit out carbon atoms.

Instead, they think the graphene absorbs laser energy and builds up a charge of electrons. Eventually it can't hold any more, and extra electrons are released, pushing the sponge in the opposite direction. Although it's not clear why the electrons don't fly off randomly, the team was able to confirm a current flowing away from the graphene as it was exposed to a laser, suggesting this hypothesis is correct (arxiv.org/abs/1505.04254).

Graphene sponge could be used to make a light-powered propulsion system for spacecraft that would beat solar sails. "While the propulsion force is still smaller than conventional chemical rockets, it is already several orders larger than that from light pressure," they write.

"The best possible rocket is one that doesn't need any fuel," says Paulo Lozano of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He thinks a graphene-powered spacecraft is an interesting idea, but losing electrons would mean the craft builds up a positive charge that would need to be neutralised, or it could cause damage.

This article appeared in print under the headline "Spacecraft may fly on graphene wings"

Spacecraft built from graphene could run on nothing but sunlight - space - 28 May 2015 - New Scientist