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Zhongguancun's Fengtai Park launched an international cooperation project based on grapheme material technology in Beijing on Sept 4, aiming to build a new materials industry base combined with function, structure and composite material.
The park will form an international first-class team to research the graphene industry and new materials. It will make breakthroughs in a number of key technologies in the field of international high-end machinery and engineering.
It will also establish a global online trade platform for graphene technology and products to promote the development of China's graphene industry.
The project will be carried out by several leading teams at home and abroad including enterprises in Fengtai Park and UK's Brunel University.
The research and development of the graphene project is in line with the science and technology innovation concept. The research achievements of the project will be applied to different industries, according to Sun Yongwen, deputy director of Fengtai Park's administrative committee.
"China's graphite production accounts for 70 percent of the world. I believe our cooperation with Fengtai Park will lead to a bright future," said Professor Keynes at Brunel University.
Technically, graphene is a crystalline allotrope of carbon with two-dimensional properties. Discovered in 2004, it is known as the thinnest and hardest nanometer material in the world. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene." It has been wildly used in various industries and won great attention around the world.
