Leartiker Initiates his Technological Breakfasts with the grafeno like protagonist

The past 10 December 2012, Leartiker celebrated in his installations of Markina-Xemein (Biscay), his first Technological Breakfast, a new format of announcement that pursues to illustrate to the assistants about a concrete technology and that will repeat each month with subjects very different. The aim is that they can obtain a wide orientation about the same and facilitate a greater interaction between assistants and the company speaker. In this occasion was Jesús de la Fuente, CEO of Graphenea, the one who gave a report with the following title: 'Grafeno: state of the art, applications and perspectives of future'. They participated directors of R&D, responsible of new initiatives of business, emprendedores, as well as entities and people with interest in the thematic.

Situated in San Sebastián, Graphenea is a company created in 2010, with diverse partners, between them CIC nanoGune, with the aim to turn into manufacturer of a so new material like the grafeno. A two-dimensional material, since the thickness of a mesh of grafeno is of so alone an atom, that is to say, one million finer times that a peel. Although still in phase of investigation, is the best thermal sensors driver discovered to date and stands out also by his transparency of 97,7%, which, joined to his electronic properties, opens a new world for this sector.

The grafeno is a layer that situates on a sustrato (glass, polymer, silicon, copper…). Really, it can be supplied in two formats: in dust (like additive) or in format of high purity in films. This second is the speciality of Graphenea, a company that in the actuality is instrumented to manufacture destined quantities to the investigation and no to the manufacture. “The one of the grafeno –explained Jesús de la Fuente- is a niche of market very small still and probably will cost him 20 years arrive to a phase of manufacture to scale industrial. We have a pilot plant and, of the possible technologies, have decanted us by the chemical deposition in phase steam (CVD), that allows us situate the plate of grafeno on any sustrato”.

In fact, the current demand is related with the investigation and no with his industrial application, although companies very important and centres of investigation like Aimplas are showing his interest by this material. The current interest by the grafeno finds in his application in solar cells, batteries and batteries of fuel, electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers of high frequency, flexible electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers and biosensores. Another world with interesting applications is the one of the composites, since the grafeno can endow to insulating materials of thermal sensors or electronic conductivity.