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Haydale and Huntsman to promote electrically conductive graphene enhanced composites

Huntsman and Haydale will develop and validate the use of GNPs in ARALDITE epoxy resins, utilising Haydale’s proprietary plasma process.

14th September 2015

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Ammanford

Industrial, Transport/​Aerospace

This marks a first step in agreeing a joint development and commercialisation agreement between the two companies. “We are highly excited about working with a world leading resins company and to developing markets and applications for these new graphene enhanced ARALDITE resins,” said Gerry Boyce Managing Director of HCS.

“We see graphene enhanced polymer resins and their use in composite materials as being a revolution. This work opens up the potential for a whole new range of advanced composite materials and products with enhanced performance and lower cost.”

Proposed agreement

Under the proposed agreement, it is anticipated that Huntsman and HCS will develop and validate the use of GNPs in ARALDITE epoxy resins, utilising HCS’s proprietary HDPlas process. The ultimate objective of the collaboration will be to commercialise graphene enhanced ARALDITE resins for a range of applications in the composites market.

“We are pleased to be working closely with HCS on this exciting opportunity. The combination of HCS’s expertise in functionalised GNPs and our capabilities in epoxy chemistry should create multiple new opportunities to meet the needs of the growing composites market," commented Dr David Hatrick, European Technology Director at Huntsman Advanced Materials.

Composites market

“We have identified the composites market as a strategic sector for our functionalised graphene and other nano materials with HCS being a fundamental route to market for our plasma functionalised materials,” explained Ray Gibbs, Haydale Chief Executive.

“This agreement represents a major opportunity to work with a global partner to develop a whole new range of formulated resins with enhanced properties which they can sell into the composites’ market across the world.”

Haydale

Haydale, based in South Wales, is facilitating the application of graphenes and other nanomaterials in fields such as inks, sensors, energy storage, photovoltaics, composites, paints and coatings.

The company has developed a patent pending proprietary scalable plasma process to functionalise graphene and other nanomaterials. This enabling technology is said to provide Haydale with a rapid and highly cost efficient method of supplying tailored solutions to enhance applications for both raw material suppliers and product manufacturers.

Functionalisation is carried out through a low pressure plasma process that treats both organic mined fine powder and other synthetically produced nanomaterial powders producing high quality few layered graphenes and graphene nano platelets. The process can functionalise with a range of chemical groups, where the amount of chemicals can be tailored to the customer needs. Good dispersion improves the properties and performance of the host material and ensures it delivers as specified.

www.haydale.com

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