Adamant Composites, Levidian partner to develop graphene-enhanced composite materials
Specialist advanced materials knowledge will be used to develop fabrics, prepreg, resin, adhesives and coatings that address challenges faces in various industries like automotive, wind and aerospace.
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Levidian Nanosystems (Cambridge, U.K.) and Adamant Composites Ltd. (Patra, Greece), which has expertise in the design of large, deployable structures, and the use of composite and nano-enabled materials in applications such as batteries, hydrogen storage tanks, UAVs airframes and deployable structure subsystems, have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to collaborate on enhancing composite materials with Levidian’s graphene.
Over the next three years, each company will leverage its specialist understanding of advanced materials to incorporate Levidian’s sustainable graphene in a range of composite materials. The addition of graphene to composite materials and components will reportedly lead to improved process times while augmenting physical properties.
More specifically, the JDA will focus on the unique properties of graphene, leading to innovative processing methods and applications in advanced composites. Levidian and Adamant Composites say fabrics, prepreg, resin, adhesives and coatings will be developed to address the challenges faced today in various industries including automotive, aerospace and space and wind energy.
“We know that graphene has strong applications in composites,” Levidian CEO John Hartley says. “Working with the team at Adamant, we will develop materials that can deliver significant performance and efficiency gains.”
Levidian graphene is a product of the company’s patented LOOP system. The carbon produced via this process is locked into “atom-up” graphene with no batch-to-batch variation. Levidian graphene is primarily offered as a very few layer non-functionalied graphene (Levidian G3) and a dominated single layer non-functionalied graphene (Levidian G1) is also available. The company contends that its graphene products are sustainable and, when produced using waste gas, carbon negative.
“Since our foundation we have been investing in industrializing new technologies and we succeed to deliver to our customers’ high-performing solutions harnessing nanotechnology,” Adamant Composites’ Managing Director, Antonios Vavouliotis, adds. “I am excited to partner with Levidian, joining our expertise to unlock the great potential of graphene for lightweight and sustainable composites material solutions.”
