Only materials, do not market, is a long-standing graphene industry, a major problem, and research away from the market, leading to the two out of line. The initial development of graphene is the use of mechanical stripping method, the high cost, the scope of consumption has been limited to scientific research institutions.
Graphene, came out 10 years ago, because it can not adapt to industrial applications, once only prepared in the laboratory. Now, with the advent of the first energy-saving improver for graphene engine oil in China, the gate to industrialized application of graphene has officially opened.
On the afternoon of June 30, Beijing Carbon Century Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Carbon Century") officially released a carbon graphene engine oil energy-saving improver developed by the company. According to the introduction of carbon century staff, this product has been put into production line, and some of the downstream cooperative enterprises have been found, which will be applied to automobiles, ships, engineering and various kinds of machinery and equipment.
"Do not neglect a small bottle of engine oil energy-saving improver, once out of the factory, will bring a huge market demand and huge energy-saving economies of scale," said Yan Liqun, founder of Carbon Century.
It is understood that carbon Granville added to the car engine oil, can play an average savings of 7% to 8% of the fuel effect, and has super wear resistance, in the car engine friction pair surface layer of carbon atoms to form a protective film , Will produce a lot of carbon nano-ball, helps to significantly reduce the friction coefficient.
Since graphene was discovered in 2004, the research on graphene technology in our country does not lag behind that of developed countries and has rich resources and abundant production of graphene, so that it can be used in industrial applications. But up to now, it has not been applied to the industrial application level.
Interview with reporters learned that only materials, do not market, is a long-standing graphene industry, a major problem, and research direction away from the market, leading to the two out of line. The initial development of graphene is the use of mechanical stripping method, the high cost, the scope of consumption has been limited to scientific research institutions.
As early as the Carbon Century began researching macroscopic preparation techniques for single-layer carbon materials as early as 2011, in early 2014, the team established an experimental demonstration of small single-layer carbon materials (graphene), breaking the long-term "Only for material, not for application" phenomenon, targeting the development of the downstream market. In 2013, Carbon Century's technology team successfully developed the above products and began testing different types of small cars, large cars, gasoline engines and diesel engines. The test selected seven cars, three medium-sized cars and 14 heavy trucks for actual testing. The test lasted for a total of 990,000 km in a year and a half. The results showed that all the vehicles in the test had improved power performance, Up to 10%.
"As a new material, graphene takes a long time to go from the laboratory to the consumer market and is ready to move from 0 to 1 as the world's first graphene industrialization enterprise in the world." Yan Liqun said The carbon century positioning is a technology output platform, the ultimate goal is to find downstream applications, through the manufacture of products that are closely related to people's lives, so that the graphene industry really landing.