Graphene development gets a boost as Manchester University creates a company to focus on developing graphene technology-based spinouts.
Graphene Enabled Systems, a UK-based graphene commercialisation company, has been spun out of Manchester University.
The company, which was established in December 2015, will develop and commercialise products based upon graphene technology and spin these products out in to new companies.
Each company will be based around technology from the university’s graphene patents. It is planned that Graphene Enabled Systems will deliver product demonstrators within a year of each company’s formation.
Graphene Enabled Systems, alongside working with the university, will work with innovation and intellectual property groups and the National Graphene Institute based at Manchester University. From 2017 onwards it will also work with the University’s second graphene centre, the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, and the UK government-funded Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials.
Andrew Wilkinson, chief executive of Graphene Enabled Systems, said: “At Graphene Enabled, we plan to create a huge range of exciting new products such as stronger, lighter composite materials, new flexible conductive inks, super-tough abrasion resistant coatings, special filters designed only to let selected materials pass through them and a huge array of new high-performance electronic components and energy storage devices such as batteries and capacitors.
“All of these potential new products are made possible by the work that is being carried out at the university and our job, at Graphene Enabled, is to work with industrial partners, investors and entrepreneurs to turn this innovative science into real products.”
