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Chalmers Technology University Sweden, leads massive EU project for a new super material

Monday, 28 January 2013
A project on the development of graphene led by Chalmers technology University, Gothenburg, Sweden is one of the EU's two future 'technology flagship "and the technology institution can expect billions.

This comes as the European Commission has chosen Graphene as one of Europe’s first 10-year, 1,000 million euro development flagships. It is reported that the research projects to investigate graphene and the functioning of the human brain each won 1 billion euros ($1.35 billion) in European Union funding, the European Commission said.

Graphene otherwise seen as a miracle material for tomorrow's gadgets has become something that could boost Swedish researchers in the area.
"We have just received the official confirmation from the EU, so there has not been champagne yet. We have kept us calm, but perhaps we can celebrate a little now," said Michael Fogelstrom, graphene researchers at Chalmers.

Probability chasing after China, which has taken strong strides into the development of this super material that was first developed in the UK, the EU has decided that the Swiss brain research and the Swedish graphene research will be its two major new research initiatives.

According to Chalmers, which is the seat of graphene research in Sweden, the mission of Graphene (the organisation) is to take graphene (the product) and related layered materials from academic laboratories to society, revolutionize multiple industries, and create economic growth and new jobs in Europe

Graphene is like a woven wire of carbon atoms, which is shaped like a honeycomb, just a single atom in thickness and completely transparent. Read more from here

Graphene has been subject to a scientific explosion since the groundbreaking experiments on the novel material less than ten years ago, recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 to Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, at
The University of Manchester. Graphene’s unique combination of superior properties makes it a credible starting point for new disruptive technologies in a wide range of fields.
With today’s announcement, Europe is launching a new form of joint, coordinated research initiative of unprecedented scale. The Graphene Flagship brings together an academic-industrial consortium aiming at a breakthrough for technological innovation. The research effort will cover the entire value chain from materials production to components and system integration, and targets a number of specific goals that exploit the unique properties of graphene.

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By Scancomark.com Team

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