National Graphene Institute at HVM Conference Cambridge on 5 November

The National Graphene Institute (NGI) received a single grant of £38m and has raised a further £100+ million since. How will we see the return on this taxpayer investment? A talk by the strategy director at the NGI covers their method of research commercialisation at HVM Graphene on 5 November, co-located with Smart Homes & Cleanpower Conference 2013.

 

HVM Graphene 2013

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After a morning of fascinating talks on graphene and related functional materials, introductions to the topics, overviews, case studies of material applications such as electronics, displays, touch screens and interactive print, this conference third session is as follows, ending with the NGI commercialisation talk.

The Manchester-based National Graphene Institute hosts over 120 scientists and 20 industrial partnerships working on graphene related projects. A £60m NGI facility will open in Spring 2015. The building of the Graphene Bridge starts from developing secure and scalable sources of well-characterised material. It links with applications where the market case is clear and competitive. This talk will provide a briefing on the main fields of graphene research at the NGI, and our strategy for partnerships with industrial and academic research groups. The new communications strategy that has been instigated at the National Graphene Institute focuses now on the precision engineering and manufacturing of graphene, rather than its potential as a wonder material. Universities have industrial partnerships paying to engage in graphene R&D, and there are some 28 graphene manufacturing spinouts / startups. 

Session 3 – Commercialisation Cases & other materials & applications

14:00 Dr Krzysztof Koziol, Chief Scientist, Cambridge Nanosystems Ltd
Large-scale development of low-D carbon nanostructures 

14:15 Professor Jonathan Coleman Trinity College Dublin, 

Layered materials: from tiny things to advanced applications 

14:30 Professor Richard Palmer, CEO, Birmingham University

Prospects for massive scale-up from nano research in biochips & catalysis

14:50 Dr Nathan Hill, Strategy Director, National Graphene Institute

Commercialisation strategies for graphene

15:10 Panel with Moderator Del Stark CEO, Nanopro
15:30 Tea break

then Final Session with IfM, Nokia, CIR & Genesys, NanoKTN.

Information

Venue: Buckingham House Conference Centre, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge CB3 0DF, UK
Start: 09:30am welcome
End: 17:30 Networking reception

Prices

£195 (angel & traditional VC investors, full-time employed by government, pure academia)

£325 (executives, full or part-time, incl. gov/private advisors & accelerators/incubators & those with consulting or professional services bundled, all other)


There are just 9 places remaining as of today (October 25, 2013) - do hurry to book!

You can call 01223 303500 or email graphene@hvm-uk.com to book.

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