We published a post listing top 10 graphene companies in China a few days ago. Meanwhile, U.S. and Europe also have strong existence in graphene commercialization. Furthermore, graphene businesses in U.S. and Europe tend to engage more advanced applications, including sensors, acoustics, optoelectronics, energy storage and harvesting, and so on. Below are featured graphene companies with offices in U.S.
G3 is the holding company for three subsidiaries: Nanotek Instruments, founded in 1997, is the Intellectual Property arm of G3 with more than 160 U.S. patents. Angstron Materials, founded in 2007, is the largest volume producer of graphene globally. It is focused on high volume production of graphene raw materials, enhanced thermal interface materials (films, pastes, inks), and nanocomposite products (both thermoplastics and thermosets). Honeycomb Battery, founded in 2015, is focused on commercializing next generation lithium ion battery electrodes, batteries enhanced with graphene, and improved battery manufacturing processes.
G3 is committed to commercializing graphene as a raw material and graphene-enabled applications such as nano-composites, lubricants, silicon-anode, rubbers, cement, corrosion protection coatings, thermal interface materials, and advanced batteries.
In July 2017, Global Graphene Group (G3), announced that it has secured the first $10 million of a Preferred Series A investment from Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) with conditions for a second close of an additional $13 million for a total $23 million Series A investment with Western & Southern as the sole investor.
Graphene Frontiers is a world leader in advanced nanotechnology and the manufacture of graphene for commercial and industrial applications for electronics and sensors.
The company is the winner of a significant grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its innovative, patent pending, manufacturing process. Graphene Frontiers’ proprietary chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process works at atmospheric pressure compared to all other graphene companies that require a more expensive process utilizing a vacuum environment. Therefore, Graphene Frontiers is uniquely positioned to mass produce graphene on a commercial scale and at an economically viable cost. This process is also able to transfer graphene to nearly any substrate.
Graphene Frontiers’ mass production capabilites will facilitate market disruption within the biosensor, desalinization, and electronics industries, among others. Graphene Frontiers began in 2010 and became a spin-out in 2011, under the University of Pennsylvania’s UPstart program. It was founded by Dr. Charlie Johnson and Dr. Zhengtang Luo, with CEO Michael Patterson. The company, with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA, USA, markets graphene globally.
3. 1st Graphene
1st graphene is headquarted in California. It is engaged in developing partnerships with manufacturers interested in making their products better. 1st graphene provides high purity, monolayer gaphene and we help manufacturers and R&D labs leverage the wonderful properties of graphene to improve products and to develop new products from the ground up. The service and products include at least three aspects.
MASTERBATCH OR PREMIX
1st graphene disperses graphene into the same material you use for manufacturing so that it is stabilized, and then you add it to your batches and it dispersed in a stable manner throughout your larger batch. And that’s why 1st graphene does a master batch or premix.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
1st graphene finds the places where graphene can actually respond to the needs of the market to make a better product. 1st graphene looks at what your process is and how you make your components and try to fit into your manufacturing process so that 1st graphene can enhance your products without interrupting the way you do things today.
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
1st graphene works with new product developers to develop new products just based on the characteristics of graphene. 1st graphene has graphene that is a great heat conductor, great electrical conductor, its strong it’s light – all these wonderfull things. And so customers can start from scratch and completely re-imagine what a new product is and does and how it works using graphene.
4. Graphene Supermarket / Graphene Laboratories Inc
Graphene Supermarket provides laboratory supplies for graphene community. Graphene Supermarket has straightforward pricing, online shipping quote and checkout. Graphene Supermarket has no minimum order requirement and accepts all major credit cards. All orders will be processed within 2 business days of order placement. Web site www.graphene-supermarket.com is owned and operated by Graphene Laboratories Inc.
5. Everpower
Everpower International Holdings Co., Ltd is a renowned New York-based investment management company that is based on the strategy of globalization and is committed to investing in the three leading industries–“High-Tech, Healthy, and Entertainment”.
In April 2016, Everpower and Angstron Materials Inc. (AMI) have reached an agreement to establish Everpower Sheng Tie (Xiamen) Graphene Technology Co., Ltd in China to realize industrial production of single-layer graphene and develop applications of graphene-based technologies. Everpower also has industrial park in Heze of China, with an entity of Fu Xing New Materials Development (Heze).
Rutgers University licensed a technology that allows for the mass production of high-quality graphene at a reduced cost to Everpower in 2017.
Everpower also established collaboration with UK-based Haydale in 2017. Haydale Graphene Industries Plc is the holding company for Haydale Limited, Haydale Composite Solutions Limited and Haydale Technologies (Korea) Co., Limited.
6. Graphene Ora
ORA is a Montreal-based startup and now have office in California working with advanced nano-materials to produce unparalleled audio experiences. Their team of sound engineers, chemists and material scientists work with the exciting properties of Graphene to deliver smaller, lighter, more energy efficient speakers, all while remarkably improving sound quality. With a simple drop-in replacement of the speaker’s membrane, GrapheneQ can extend the battery life of a portable audio device by up to 70%, generate up to 4x the volume and significantly reduce the overall size of the speaker, allowing for bigger batteries and thinner devices. ORA’s technology is disrupting a technology that has seen little innovation since its invention in 1921: the loudspeaker! ORA successfully raised CA$ 774,768 in 2017 on a Kickstarter campaign.
Cabot Corporation is not a pure graphene company, but with its extensive R&D, it leads the way for graphene’s commercialization. Cabot has a long history of experience with carbon materials and is now developing graphenes to create solutions that deliver breakthrough performance that can break trade-offs. Through in-house development and external collaborations, Cabot has selected production routes that produce materials with unique morphologies and properties.
Cabot is working with leading companies to solve some of their toughest problems with graphene nanoplatelet-containing compounds and masterbatches. In elastomers, Cabot is finding that graphenes can increase modulus at a fraction of the loading of carbon black and thus can break important performance trade-offs offering our customers breakthrough product improvement and enable new applications. In plastics, graphene-oxide derived graphenes can deliver electrical conductivity at very low loadings and meet thermal stability, mechanical and cleanliness requirements.
Additionally, Cabot is focused on the energy storage market, including Li-ion and Pb-acid batteries. Cabot is working with several leading Li-ion battery producers to develop graphene-based dispersions that can deliver the long range conductivity that is needed to develop thicker electrodes with increased capacity. The morphology of graphenes allows for a formulation of low viscosity electrode pastes with good capacity. Graphene materials enable reductions in system costs for various applications in Pb-acid batteries.
8. XG Sciences
XG Sciences, Inc., formed in May 2006, is a pioneer and market leader in the design and manufacture of graphene nanoplatelets. Graphene nanoplatelets are particles consisting of multiple layers of graphene and are considered a game changer for numerous industries. XGS’ graphene nanoplatelets, trademarked under the name xGnP®, have demonstrated performance impacting multi-billion dollar markets and have unique capabilities for energy storage, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, barrier properties and the ability to significantly improve mechanical properties when incorporated into plastics or other matrices.
Graphene Technologies, Inc. manufactures bulk graphene nano-materials. The company focuses on the development of commercial chemical and polymer systems. It develops and produces intermediate products, including polymer dispersions and master batches; and offers graphene, MgO, and composites. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Novato, California.
GT is developing a new class of highly-engineered structural foams using two-dimensional carbon nanostructures. These patent-pending foams offer transformative strength, stiffness, and toughness for weight-critical applications.
10. Vorbeck
Vorbeck is the global leader in graphene products and solutions. Born out of a Princeton Research Lab, Vorbeck is now bringing products to market with some of the most well recognized brands and institutions in the world.
As the first company with EPA approval to sell commercial graphene-based products, Vorbeck has the capability to integrate this groundbreaking material seamlessly into products that are ready to ship. In terms of pure capacity, our team has the largest production capability of high-quality graphene anywhere in the world. Vorbeck’s patented technology is based on single-atom thick graphene sheets: it has applicability for Antennas, RFID, Wearables, Next Generation Battery Development, Composites, and Conductive Inks
Products at Vorbeck are based on two core technologies Vor-x® as a multi-functional additive and Vor-ink™ as a preferred solution for new and existing applications in the printed electronics industry through its ease of processing, durability, and exceptional conductivity.
Other relatively big companies, such as IBM, Lockheed Martin and lintec-nstc, also put significant effort to develop advanced graphene applications. Also, there are many great companies with base in Europe. We will have another post to summarize the graphen businessesin Europe.
There are more graphene businesses in U.S. and we will add more information to make this post contains information of graphene businesses in U.S. as completely as possible.