Graphene materials: understand the market

Last updated on Sun 02/02/2025 - 10:30

Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms in a honeycomb crystal lattice (hexagons) - and it is one of the most exciting materials ever to be discovered. Graphene is the world's strongest, thinnest and most conductive material. It is also transparent and flexible.

In 2004, researchers managed to isolate graphene, which inspired a multitude of studies and researches. Graphene's potential applications are dazzling, and it may revolutionize entire industries as it can be used for energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), energy generation (PV cells), sensors, membranes, conductive material (ITO replacement in touch displays), drug delivery, photonic applications and more. Graphene may also be useful for next-generation transistors, electronic devices and spintronics devices.

The market for graphene materials is varied, as the materials themselves are many: graphene can come in sheets, nanoplatelets, doped-versions and much more. Many companies offer various graphene materials.

Graphene based materials

Companies are offering products and materials based on graphene: graphene ribbons, graphene-oxide, graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), graphene powders, graphene inks, foams and all sorts of graphene based nanomaterials.

Those materials can be used to build anodes for batteries, coating materials, thermal-management systems, conductive materials and many other applications. You can find many of these companies in our graphene related companies index.

 

Graphene-enhanced products

As you have read above, some companies are already producing graphene and graphene-based materials. But production volume is still low, and prices are high. Still, hundred of companies around the world are purchasing sample materials and are beginning to design new products based on graphene. Read more here.

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