Swansea University’s Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC) and Haydale have signed a research and collaboration agreement. The aim of the new partnership will be to fully commercialise Haydale’s graphene-based inks and coatings.
The two new partners will initially produce a range of specifically targeted inks and coatings. Haydale will provide commercial ink formulations which the WCPC will work towards developing an refining.
The partnership will also look at the possibility to exploit functionalised graphene and other carbon nano-materials developed by the company. This includes transparent conductive films, barrier coatings and 3D printing. The team at WCPC will be led by Tim Claypole, the centre’s founder and director and professor at Swansea University’s College of Engineering.
Tim Claypole said: “This is a good example of where the expertise and facilities of the WCPC, which have been developed with the support of the Welsh Government Academic Expertise for Business programme, help a leading edge Welsh company grow its highly innovative product portfolio. … The WCPC will further benefit from this project as it will have an improved understanding of the operating and quality assurance procedures. It will then be able to apply these to ressarch into the creation of inks and coatings based on other novel materials.”
