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Graphene commercialization

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Graphene is extensively researched in China. Xiaoyue Xiao, Yichun Li and Zhaoping Liu illustrate how the China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry aims to harness this for commercial opportunities.

Graphene receives substantial interest, driven by the unique physics it presents and a plethora of properties that make it attractive for applications. In particular, high in-plane conductivity, carrier mobility, transparency, flexibility and strength means that graphene has potential for implementation in a range of functional electronic devices, and for energy harvesting and storage, sensors, optoelectronics, composites and so on. Consequently, substantial efforts have been focused towards its research and development (R&D), with particular activity in the United States, Europe, South Korea and Japan. Likewise, the Chinese scientific community has invested considerably in this area. Until 2014, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) awarded more than US$60 million to cultivate R&D projects on graphene and its related technologies (based on data collected by the China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry). By the end of August 2015, China had published 34% of all papers on the topic, more than the United States (19%; ref. 1). But China also has big ambitions for the technological transfer of graphene from basic research to commercial products; local patents from China for graphene technology account for 38% of all graphene patents worldwide2.

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H. Shi, H. Zhu and Y. Lu are thanked for their assistance during the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. Xiaoyue Xiao, Yichun Li and Zhaoping Liu are at the China Innovation Alliance of the Graphene Industry, Center for International Technology Transfer, Beijing 100083, China

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  2. Zhaoping Liu is also at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Xiao, X., Li, Y. & Liu, Z. Graphene commercialization. Nature Mater 15, 697–698 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4665

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