24 September 2012
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BASF and
the Max Plack Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)
opened the joint research and platform,
The Carbon Materials Innovation Center (CMIC),
at BASF's Ludwigshafen site, Germany.
A multidisciplinary taskforce will research the scientific principles
and potential applications of innovative carbonized materials.
The twelve-members international team is composed of
chemists, physicists and material scientists.
The activities will include
- synthesizing and characterizing new materials and
- evaluating the potential use in energy and electronic appliations
The total investment for the joint research and development
platform amount to EUR 10 million
initially scheduled to run for 3 years
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The Aim of CMIC
- The CMIC is the first research platform to be operated by BASF
jointly with scientific partner on a BASF's site.
- The cooperation with MPI-P is an outstanding example of
verbund knowledge in BASF research.
- The aim is to gain access to new technologies and business areas
in the field of carbon-based materials and
allow the rapid transfer of application-based knowledge
into industry and
- To generate sustainable solutions from chemistry
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About Graphene : Potential uses and applications
- Graphene is closely related to graphite that is used in pencils.
- In contrast graphene consists of
only one atomic layer of carbon atoms.
- Graphene conducts electricity and heat very effectively
and is ultra light weight and
simultaneously very hard.
- Graphene is chemically very stable,
elastic and
practically transparent.
- These properties make graphene highly attractive for
numerous applications such as
1. solar cells and
2. touchscreens
3. certain graphene-based composites
in automobile industries
4. batteries
5. catalysts
6. catalysts carriers
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