HC Plastics News: On September 25th, the 20 billion yuan graphene industry mother fund jointly established by the National Development and Reform Commission China Investment Association Emerging Industry Center and Tianyuan Yuwang and Qianhai Wutong was officially launched in Nanjing. The fund is centered on “capital + industry†and builds a graphene ecosystem to solve the problem of slow development of the graphene industry and to help innovation and development.
Graphene is the world's thinnest, hardest, and least resistive nanomaterial with ultra-high strength and ultra-high thermal conductivity. However, the downstream application of graphene is slow to advance. The data shows that the current annual production capacity of domestic graphene materials is maintained at around 3,000 tons, while the demand is only more than 100 tons. The downstream market for graphene is for further development.
Huang Ligui, general manager of Tianyuan Yuwang, said that the industry is exploring two issues: first, how to obtain graphene with high purity, and the other is whether graphene can be applied to all walks of life. “As of 2016, we received 9022 patents related to graphene, half of which were domestically applied. The biggest challenge now is that there is no substantial breakthrough in the downstream application of graphene.â€
There are many reasons for failing to break through. There are many problems such as technology, standards, consumer habits, etc., and insufficient capital investment is also an important reason. Liu Ren, vice president of the China Investment Promotion Association of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that industrial development needs financial support, especially the graphene industry has huge demand for investment. The China Investment Association's Emerging Industry Center, together with the Qianhai Wutong M&A Fund and Tianyuan Yuwang, jointly launched the China Graphene Industry Parent Fund with a total scale of 20 billion yuan. It is to promote the graphene industry technology research and development, project incubation, product innovation and development through the fund. Industrial integration of key applications in the upstream and downstream of the graphene industry and the transformation of graphene technology achievements.
Xie Wenli, the president of Qianhai Wutong, said that the investment chosen by Qianhai Indus must be able to solve the pain points of society. The reason why graphene applications are not widely promoted is that there is a problem in the supply of raw materials and the cost. When the cost of materials is not competitive in the market, manufacturers will not dare to scale, otherwise they will lose money. At this time, if we can find more innovative graphene enterprises with the help of capital, and help the healthy growth of enterprises, we can realize the industrialization of graphene as quickly as possible. 
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