Supermaterials - Graphene
The term "supermaterials" has been used a lot recently - ceramic supermaterials, aerogel supermaterials, elastomer supermaterials, and so on. materials, aerogel super materials, elastomer super materials. But there's one super-material that swamps them all, earning its discoverer a Nobel Prize and defining the upper limit of scientific hype and excitement. It has the potential to revolutionize processing, power storage, and even space exploration: the material graphene. So what are the main market applications of graphene?
Graphene is a heteromorph (form) of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. It is the basic structural element of many other isomers of carbon, such as graphite, diamond, carbon, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. Graphene has many unusual properties; it conducts heat and electricity efficiently, it is also highly conductive and almost transparent. Not only does it have incredible physical properties, it is also widely cited as the strongest material created on a per weight basis. For example, graphene, when atomically small, allows transistors in processors to be more tightly packed and allows many electronics industries to take a big step forward.
In the future era of graphene, with the gradual breakthroughs in mass production as well as graphene technology and other challenges, the pace of the industrialization and application of graphene is accelerating, and based on the research results already available, in the future, graphene will take the lead in the commercialization of graphene applications in the following areas:
01 Applications in basic research
02 Sensor applications
Graphene can be made into chemical sensors, a process mainly accomplished through the adsorption properties of the surface of graphene, according to some scholars, the sensitivity of the graphene chemical detector can be compared with the limit of single-molecule detection. The unique two-dimensional structure of graphene makes it very sensitive to its surroundings. Graphene is an ideal material for electrochemical biosensors, and sensors made of graphene have good sensitivity for detecting dopamine and glucose in medicine.
03 New energy battery applications
New energy batteries are also one of the earliest commercialization of graphene in a major field. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has successfully developed a flexible photovoltaic panel with graphene nano-coating on the surface, which can greatly reduce the cost of manufacturing transparent and deformable solar cells, which can potentially be used in night-vision goggles, cameras and other small digital devices. In addition, the successful research and development of graphene super battery has also solved the problem of insufficient capacity and long charging time of new energy automobile battery, which greatly accelerated the development of new energy battery industry. This series of research results has paved the way for the application of graphene in the new energy battery industry.
04 Application in the field of anti-corrosion coatings
At present, the domestic consumption of anti-corrosion coatings is nearly 1.8 million tons, accounting for more than 40% of the world's total consumption of anti-corrosion coatings. China's anti-corrosion coatings demand is mainly concentrated in the field of ships, petrochemicals, bridges, containers and so on. After adding graphene to the coating, graphene can form a stable conductive grid, effectively improve the utilization of zinc powder, at the same time, graphene coating can form a physical barrier layer between the metal surface and the active medium, and play a good protective role for the substrate material.
In recent years, the petrochemical industry, railroad transportation, new energy, infrastructure construction and so on are booming, providing a broad market space for anti-corrosion coatings. Envon Technology is committed to the large-scale commercial and industrial application of graphene coatings, to provide global customers with efficient products and a full range of solutions, to break the situation of China's heavy-duty anticorrosive coatings and the core raw materials are heavily dependent on imports, for the coatings industry industry to provide a solid foundation for Industry 4.0.
As a pioneer of graphene application, graphene anticorrosive coatings and functional coatings have become one of the key development strategies of Envon Technology. Envon Technology integrates the coating resources invested by the group, organizes top researchers, and takes the lead in developing graphene composite ceramic corrosion-resistant resins and coatings series products as well as unique graphene-modified zinc powder primer, and so on.
05 Applications in Medical and Healthcare Fields
In March of this year, a new non-invasive graphene technology for tumor treatment developed by Nanjing Medical University and Envon Technology*** was published as a cover paper in Advanced Therapeutics, a top biomedical journal in the U.S. This non-invasive, low side-effect, low-cost, low-cost, and low-cost graphene technology has been widely used in the medical field for many years, including the treatment of tumors in the United States. This new non-invasive, low side-effect, low-cost treatment strategy may become a major advancement in curing cancer, and is expected to become one of the mainstream methods of tumor treatment in the future.
In the treatment of chronic diseases, graphene has great medical potential. Graphene releases far infrared radiation, which triggers cellular atom and molecule *** vibration, *** vibration effect can be far infrared heat transfer to the deeper part of the human subcutaneous, the role of the vascular microcirculation system, which can accelerate blood circulation, strengthen the metabolism of the tissues, conditioning, and promote the recovery of chronic diseases. The development of graphene in the medical field is surprising, the use of non-pharmacological therapies to treat diseases, on the one hand, to reduce the damage, on the other hand, to save money, not only to make the medical technology become more mature, improve the efficiency and quality of medical activities, but also with the traditional medical technology to form a complementary, while reducing the cost of health care. With this treatment, we can continue to make quality healthcare resources available to more people.
Graphene technology has brought significant breakthroughs in the field of medicine, and has contributed to the extraordinary power of human health. With more applications of graphene in the medical field, more scientific and medical experts are convinced that graphene will play an even greater role in solving more problems that are currently unsolvable in the coming decades.
All in all, from the point of view of the actual application of graphene technology as well as the level of technology nowadays, a lot of development of graphene has already made decisive progress, which is in the field of anticorrosive coatings and medical and health care, Envon Technology has already been developed to a stage where it can be commercially applied on a large scale. We believe that as more and more mature graphene applications to accelerate the landing, graphene, will redefine the world, let us look forward to the world change.