"Photovoltaic Gene" Enterprise Develops Graphene Textile Materials Breakthrough

Yangzi Evening News (Reporter Guo Xiaochuan) Jiangsu enterprises have made significant breakthroughs in the application of graphene in the field of apparel fibers. At the appraisal meeting of the "Graphite Atmospheric Intercalation Stripping Preparation Technology and Its Application in Textile Materials" held in Shanghai on September 27th, domestic experts such as Academician Sun Jinliang of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Secretary General of the China Graphene Industry Alliance Li Yichun believed that The above two innovations have outstanding practicality and reached the international advanced level. The result comes from Nantongvia Graphene Technology Co., Ltd., a new company with “photovoltaic genes”.

China's graphene industry has developed rapidly in recent years. Sha Xiaolin, a major investor in Nantongvia, is the chairman of Johnson & Johnson Optoelectronics, a well-known photovoltaic company in China. According to him, in 2009, when the photovoltaic industry was in the ascendant, he entered the field of graphene. In the past seven years, the accumulated investment has exceeded 20 million yuan. At present, they have established a research and development team composed of experts from China, the United States and Germany. At present, the company has a relatively complete technical reserve from graphene upstream materials to downstream applications, and has successfully developed a series of new products of graphene materials based on composite fibers. Sha Xiaolin introduced that the investment institutions have intentionally invested 1 billion yuan to acquire the company.

Nantongvia has developed graphene composite fiber new products such as graphene nylon fiber and polyester fiber, which have obvious effects in antibacterial, anti-mite and anti-UV, and also have certain functions in heat resistance, antistatic and anti-cutting. "Single-layer graphene normal temperature intercalation stripping preparation technology", the cost is only one-tenth of the foreign similar products.

The company plans to achieve mass production of graphene functional specialty fibers next year, with a production capacity of 10,000 tons. The company's annual production capacity of 5 tons of single-layer graphene production line has begun, and the second-stage production line with an annual production capacity of 100 tons will be put into operation in the first quarter of next year.