China's Powerbooster developed graphene-based flexible touch panels, started mass production?
Powerbooster Technology (based in Shanghai) developed a graphene-based flexible touch-panels for mobile devices. The company says that graphene is cheaper and stronger than ITO (traditionally used for touch panels). The company plans to invest $150 million in the next three years in order to bring their solutions to the market.
Powerbooster is partnering with Bluestone Global Tech to supply them with graphene. They say they already started to produce these touch panels - in fact they claim that they already sell around 2 million touch panels per month, apparently to mid-sized Chinese smartphone makers (this is rather surprising, hopefully we'll learn more soon). They aim to get the first products with their graphene touch screens in the market by the end of 2013.
Interview with Bluestone Global Tech's CEO, promises first graphene-based touch panels by Q3 2013
Bluestone Global Tech (BGT) was founded in 2011 in New York with an aim to produce graphene. The company offers high-quality, fully customizable graphene on several substrates (Quartz, Copper, Silicon and others). BGT's CEO, Dr. Chung Ping Lai, was kind enough to answer a few questions we had about the company's business and technology.
Dr. Lai became BGT's CEO in November 2012. Previously he worked with Taiwan's ITRI institute, Veeco, Applied films and other companies. Dr. Lai received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Ceramics Science and Engineering of Rutgers University in 1992.
Bluestone Global Tech produces two short graphene intro videos
Bluestone Global Tech released two short videos introducing Graphene. The first focuses on the different graphene properties (strength, flexibility, conductivity, etc):
The second video is all about the different graphene applications, such as displays, LEDs, touch screens, batteries, solar cells and conductive wires
Bluestone Global Tech now offers a 24" by 300" graphene film on copper
Bluestone Global Tech (BGT) announced that they are now offering a roll of 24" by 300" graphene film on copper (branded Grat-Film). This is the first time that such a large graphene sheet is available.
BGT's online shop currently offers graphene on PET, on Quartz and on SiO2/Si. Hopefully they'll add the new graphene-on-copper product soon - and then we'll know the price of this new product.