I’m James Baker. I’m the chief executive of graphene at Manchester. From the University of Manchester. Graphine first isolated here in Manchester in 2 thousand and 4.
2 two dimensional material, it’s got length, it’s got bre. But a one atomic layer thick is a so-called wonder material.
But how do we translate that material into products and applications? What we’re doing at the University of Manchester is working with industry to create new products, new applications using Graphine and two D materials. One of the challenges we’re trying to overcome is it can take many years to take a new material into products and applications. So we’ve created what we call the Manchester model and we’re here at the conference today to talk about some of the challenges of taking a new material from discovery into new products and applications working with industry. So how do we look at the whole innovation cycle?
The project management very differently to really accelerate and do things in days and weeks rather than months and years. Project Challenge confer has been really good to meet some slightly different people, but we actually need some new types of tools. Real agility. How do we work with large corporations through to startups smes to really look about the tool sets that we need to really accelerate with agility. These new products and applications. Graphene is nearly 20 years old, which sounds a lot of years for many people, but’s still relatively young for a new material.
Already you have seen those first products and applications hitting the marketplace from rubber shoes through to paints through to coatings through to car components to really now start. See the commercialization happening of graphene and two D Materials.
