US-based startup BlueVine Graphene Industries (BlueVine) is to scale up the production of graphene for commercial applications such as the company’s supercapacitors.
The company has developed scalable graphene electrodes, which can be customised to unique customer applications. The scale-up is also aimed to provide pricing advantages.
“We can give the same foundational graphene electrodes entirely different properties, utilizing standard or custom materials that we are developing for our own commercial products,” said BlueVine CEO Glenn Johnson. The graphene electrodes use a roll-to-roll chemical vapour deposition process and are then combined with other materials utilising a different roll-to-roll process.
“Our graphene-based supercapacitors charge in just a fraction of the time needed to charge lithium-ion batteries,” said Timothy Fisher, founder and Chief Technology Officer of BlueVine.
Fisher added that the company’s supercapacitors have the same energy density as lithium-ion batteries without a similar energy fade over time, using the developed Folium graphene technology.
BlueVine was founded this year and uses the technology innovated at Purdue University in Illinois, US. The technology is exclusively licensed to BlueVine.
The startup will also accelerate its production of biosensors.
