Since 2014, Nanesa has been a partner in the European Graphene Flagship Consortium, a 10-year EU-funded project consisting of more than 170 research partners from universities, research centres and industry.
The project’s objective is to successfully transition graphene from the laboratory to real industrial applications, making it useful in multiple sectors and in everyday life.
Since 2014, Nanesa has been working in the Consortium’s Work Package 14, which focuses on nanocomposites. Since its foundation, Nanesa has been accredited as an SME that is particularly active in initially proposing new graphene-based materials and semi-finished products (different grades of GRM and G-Paper with multiple properties) produced on an industrial scale. The company has also been active in the development of high-performance material applications and prototypes, gradually approaching real applications.
Throughout the various phases of the Graphene Flagship, Nanesa has acquired high technological competences by structuring a research group of primary scientific importance and initiating scientific collaborations on several levels.
The company’s technical credibility is further evidenced by its long-term partnerships with numerous research centres and multinational companies (ABB, FCA, AIRBUS, Tetrapak, Spac, Italcementi, Deltatech, etc.).
In 2020, in the Graphene Flagship’s final phase (known as Core 3), the company played a key role in three distinct Spearhead projects, contributing to the development of cutting-edge graphene-based technology solutions.
The G+Board project sees Nanesa involved in the development of a car dashboard prototype (Alfa Stelvio QV) made of graphene-based nanocomposite materials that integrate localised electrical functions for the transmission of control signals.
A second prototype focuses on the integration of graphene-based heaters, such as heating elements for steering wheels that can provide homogeneous properties and speed of heating with reduced power, while simultaneously enhancing assembly processes.
The Circuit Breaker project sees Nanesa as ABB’s key partner in the development of multilayer Graphene-Metal coatings capable of conferring exceptional solid lubrication, corrosion and abrasion resistance properties even under extreme ageing conditions.
These properties are exploited to improve the lifecycle of electro-mechanical mechanisms inside power switches, making it possible to completely eliminate the frequent maintenance and greasing operations to which they are currently subjected.
As a partner of AIRBUS in the development of de-icing and anti-icing systems for aeronautical applications, Nanesa has developed innovative technological solutions by exploiting the properties of its G-Paper and creating heater mats that can be integrated within CFRP or GFRP composite structures.
The same G-Papers were used to develop a capacitive sensor capable of detecting the presence and growth of ice on the surface of the component.
https://graphene-flagship.eu/innovation/spearheads/c3-sh10-gice/
At Nanesa, we are developing innovative graphene-based solutions for thermal management in a range of application fields.
Our research activities are centred on the development of high-performance coatings for various substrates, with the aim of optimising their heat exchange capacity.