£60m graphene centre announced
11 Sep 2014
Chancellor George Osborne yesterday announced plans to build a second graphene research centre at the University of Manchester.
The £60 million Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) will sit alongside the UK National Graphene Institute (NGI), which is also located at the university.
The GEIC project will be joing funded by the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (15m), Innovate UK (£5m), the Abu Dhabi-based clean technology and renewable energy company Masdar (£30m), with the remainder being sourced by the University through a variety of funding schemes.
Graphene is dubbed the ’wonder material’ that comprises a one atom thick carbon material that has a range of applications from food packaging that could tell you when your food goes off to drugs that can be delivered to specific cells to bendable mobile phones with enormous battery life.
The GEIC will provide facilities so that graphene based products can be fast-tracked from the drawing board to the market.
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