Summary

Why use IDTechEx for research on graphene and other nanomaterials?

Graphene: Finally moving out of the lab and into the market

• Graphene-related materials take a wide range of types, grades and forms, each with their own commercial outlook. There is some progression towards standardization and safety legislation/qualification, but this challenge still prevails. Extensive analysis and benchmarking studies are shown in the report across the complete range of graphene materials.
• Graphene nanoplatelets (GNP), graphene oxide (GO), and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) are the closest forms to significant commercial uptake. There are increasing signs that we are now in the rapid growth phase, with significant applications observed for polymer composites for automotive, heat spreaders for smartphones, industrial elastomers, anti-corrosion coatings and many more.
• There is no "best graphene" with each application having different multifunctional requirements, the end-users now accept that the winning materials cannot be determined a priori as final application-level results are influenced by many parameters such as graphene morphology and purity. Players understand there is key know-how in both dispersing graphene and introducing valuable functionality, companies are competing to fill that crucial stage of the value chain (externally and in-house) to provide a range of intermediate products.
• There are numerous strengths and weaknesses to the different graphene production processes with top-down approaches of liquid phase exfoliation and oxidation-reduction processes dominant. The report explores these processes in detail and also explores emerging alternatives looking to use alternate feedstocks, improve the efficiency and/or enhance the final product.
• There are a very large number of graphene manufacturers, which will not be the case in the long term as major success will result in consolidation - with the first signs having been reported. This report tracks the manufacturers' progress in detail including their revenue, profitability, capacity, price, properties, partnerships and more. China has become a significant territory in terms of production capacity and research, which is explored throughout the report.
• Our data suggest that revenue for graphene companies has been rising steadily for many years and this will accelerate as we pass through this inflection point. The rise, however, has not always been accompanied with increasing profit. Indeed, the industry, as a whole, is still loss making with only a handful of profitable companies and certainly some disillusionment arising as a result. Public and private funding still plays an important part of this nascent industry; this is tracked and discussed within the market report.
• Advanced materials often suffer from being a material push rather than a market pull. The report looks at key sectors in detail to understand some of the business cases solving unmet needs. Market drivers include the necessity for improved thermal management, sustainability, lightweighting, product lifetime, and more.
• With such an extensive potential application list, a key question is: where will there be success? Composites, energy storage, concrete, coatings, thermal management, and textiles all represent a very large potential, and promising results have been seen. An outlook on the revenue and volume progression can be seen in the chart below and this roadmap is discussed in detail throughout the report.

 

 

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Table of Contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

2. FORECASTS

3. OTHER NANOCARBON MATERIALS

4. GRAPHENE PRODUCTION

5. ENERGY STORAGE: BATTERIES

6. ENERGY STORAGE: SUPERCAPACITORS

7. THERMAL MANAGEMENT

8. POLYMER ADDITIVE

9. FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) ADDITIVE

10. CONCRETE & ASPHALT

11. GRAPHENE CONDUCTIVE INKS

12. SENSORS

13. TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS

14. GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS

15. MEMBRANES

16. OTHER APPLICATIONS

17. 2D MATERIALS BEYOND GRAPHENE

18. COMPANY PROFILES