Graphene Company Celebrates UK and International Growth

UK graphene company Moorfield has been celebrating the success of its nanoCVD systems, which have been helping companies to manufacture graphene quickly and easily. The company has used joint events from the NanoKTN and the Joint Equipment Materials Initiative (JEMI) to showcase the technology and with £90,000 of funding from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Moorfield and its UK distributor, IDB Technologies, have also been able to promote UK graphene capabilities to international audiences, resulting in a number of new UK and International projects.

The nanoCVD product was developed using a TSB ‘Proof of Concept’ award which is specifically designed to allow companies to cross the ‘valley of death’ from initial idea to commercial product. It is part of the SMART award scheme and is open to groups and individual companies needing small levels of support.

Dr Jon Edgeworth, Product Manager at Moorfield Ltd explains, “We’re delighted with the interest in our graphene technology and products. Working with the Technology Strategy Board, NanoKTN, JEMI and IDB Technologies, we have been able to demonstrate the strength of UK graphene expertise and in particular how our nanoCVD system can enable companies to manufacture graphene themselves, quickly, easily and in a cost-effective and repeatable manner.” 

The Moorfield nanoCVD system is being used by Prof. Monica Craciun at Exeter University to deliver a significant rise in productivity in the research of her group and of the EPSRC Exeter-Bath Centre for Graphene Science, as she explains, “Typically graphene films used to take 8 hours to produce but using Moorfield’s nanoCVD system, we have been able to reduce this to about 30 minutes and on substrates which are around 1-4 cm2."