Ford Motor Company has found a new use for graphene – a relatively new nanomaterial that’s 200 times stronger than steel – under the hoods of passenger vehicles like the Ford F-150 pickup and Ford Mustang pony car. Working together with Eagle Industries and XG Sciences, has come up with a method for deploying the stuff in more than ten underhood components, including fuel rail covers, pump covers, and front engine covers.
NASA knows our civilization has a huge problem: We have to fight climate change while satisfying our need for cheap, easy transportation over land, sea, and air. That means we need to electrify cars, ships, and airplanes—a task that is impossible right now because we don’t have the technology to make it happen. Fortunately, NASA is working on project SABERS, a battery that has the potential to change that, thanks to new chemistry and the wonder material graphene.
Nationwide Engineering and The University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) have developed a revolutionary graphene-enhanced concrete that significatly reduces both CO2, cost, and the need for steel reinforcements.
Smartphone makers are using various solutions to achieve a light design and provide a better user experience. It seems like Huawei has found a new graphene heat dissipation tech to usher a major change in its smartphone weight and battery capacity.
Graphene is penetrating many commercial sectors. Despite the higher regulatory barriers enforced within the medical industry, a range of medical devices are being created using graphene for the general public. This article looks at how graphene has been innovating both lower-tech and high-tech medical devices, how graphene is opening new medical device applications, and how the commercialization of graphene medical devices has progressed to the point that, in 2022, we are seeing more and more medical devices going to clinical trials and being sold commercially.
The strength and density characteristics of graphene make it the ideal candidate for personal protection, especially ballistic protection applications. A Spanish research team has created a nano-composite material reinforced with graphene that has improved it to withstand the impact of military ammunition.
Golf balls have just gone even more space-age, with the news coming out of Callaway HQ in Carlsbad, California that there is a new kid on the block. And this kid has graphene (the world’s strongest and thinnest known material) in its make up.
HEAD is a leading global provider of premium, high-performance equipment and apparel for athletes and players, at all levels. They’ve been integrating graphene, the most advanced material on the planet, into the construction of their ski equipment in order to achieve lighter and stronger skis and boots.
