Recently, the National Graphene Innovation Center was approved and established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The center was upgraded from the Zhejiang Graphene Manufacturing Innovation Center, making it the only national manufacturing innovation center in the graphene field and the first national manufacturing innovation center approved for construction in Zhejiang Province. The innovation center is an important link in the innovation chain.
The National Graphene Innovation Center is operated in the form of “company+alliance” by Ningbo Institute of Materials in conjunction with key enterprises in the graphene industry, upstream and downstream units in the industry chain, etc. The alliance has more than 140 member units, basically including mainstream units engaged in graphene research and development and industrialization at home and abroad, covering all aspects of the graphene industry chain.
In several key areas such as new material technology, we will focus on the R&D direction of large-scale preparation of graphene materials, industrialized application of graphene materials, and quality of the graphene industry. We will build four major capacity platforms, including research and development design centers, industry service centers, collaborative innovation bases, and international cooperation bases, and carry out innovative capacity building such as key common technology research, testing and verification, pilot scale incubation, and industry public services, Key common technologies and basic cutting-edge technologies in the graphene industry that have broken through technological maturity levels 4-7, achieving technology transfer, diffusion, and first commercialization through the integration of various innovation factors, supporting the creation of an innovation system that runs through the innovation chain, industry chain, capital chain, talent chain, and value chain in the graphene industry, and promoting the innovative development of China’s graphene industry.
(Source: Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology)