Technology:
Osaka Gas developed a technology
to reduce the price of graphene to less than half. The company mixed coal-derived
fluorene and water, etc. With the help of an additive, it successfully made the
resulting product collide with graphite to extract graphene. Because the traditional
method to extract graphene needs equipment that creates a vacuum state, it
costs more than 20,000 yen to produce 1 kg of graphene. The newly-developed
method increases the production efficiency by more than two times besides
reducing the production cost to less than half. The company will begin full
production within the year.
ADEKA is
scheduled to start commercial production of graphene under license from the University
of Tokyo. The company will mix graphite and special chemicals and extract
graphene while radiating micro waves to graphite. The company thinks that it is
possible to reduce the production cost to about 10,000 yen per kg. If the price
of graphene is reduced to half of the present level, it will be mixed with resin
to build stronger and lighter automotive parts, radiation material, conducting
material, touch panel, electrode of smartphone. New Energy and IndustrialTechnology Development Organization (NEDO) reckons that the world market of graphene
will grow from 1.3 billion yen in 2013 to 100 billion yen in 2030.
Graphene: The future of solar energy
technology
World's smallest ENE-FARM
with high generation efficiency from Osaka Gas
with high generation efficiency from Osaka Gas
