Lithium battery manufacturers believe that in recent years, the graphene industry has developed rapidly. In the semiconductor industry, photovoltaic industry, lithium-ion batteries, aerospace, military industry and other traditional fields and new energy, new materials and other emerging fields, the new material star-shaped graphene plays an increasingly important role. Throughout 2018, how is the overall development of China's graphene industry? What are the highlights? How about the development of graphene batteries? What should be the focus of attention in 2019? To address these questions, the China Economic Times interviewed Zhao Meng, Deputy Secretary General of the China International Graphene Industry Resource Alliance.
Graphene's clustering effect is starting to emerge
China Economic Times: 2018 has passed, how do you see the development of graphene industry in China in 2018?
Zhao Meng: Graphene is an important development area for cutting-edge new materials in China. At present, graphene has gone through the hottest period of hype and gradually entered the critical period of industrialization, showing progress toward the stage of large-scale application. New functions. Overall, the industrial application of graphene in China continued to maintain a leading position in 2018, with national-level policy guidance and overall planning significantly accelerated; cooperation between industry, academia and research increasingly strengthened, and technological innovation highlights emerged frequently. With the emergence of graphene in new energy, composite materials, health and other related products, graphene is gradually "coming to life". At the same time, the industrial park (base) area is multi-pointing, and the graphene clustering effect is beginning to appear.
As the leader of new material industry, graphene is promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry, cultivating growth points for new industries, and promoting the role of public entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2017, the size of China's graphene industry reached 7 billion yuan, more than 10 times that of 2015. in 2018, China's graphene market size is expected to reach 28 billion yuan. The momentum is very rapid.
The important breakthrough in the level of "quality" is the biggest highlight.
China Economic Times: Are there any highlights of the development of graphene industry in 2018 that impress you?
Zhao Meng: From the results of applications shown at the 2018 China International Graphene Innovation Conference, graphene is used everywhere, whether in graphene heating suits, bullet-proof suits, graphene energy-saving curtain walls and environmentally friendly coatings. The road of China's graphene industry is getting wider and wider.
In my opinion, one of the highlights of 2018 is that the development of graphene applications in China has not only won the "quantity" but also made some important breakthroughs in the "qualitative" level. For example, a graphene "three-proof" coating technology was successfully developed in Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone, which can prevent high temperature and high humidity, salt spray corrosion and mold, and can be used to protect graphene. It can be used to protect graphene in marine gas turbines, high temperature components of aerospace engines and ships against salt spray and marine biological corrosion, which solves the technical problems of China in this field and fills the gap of high-end industry.
In short, graphene is a brand new industry that will take some time to solve. With the breakthrough of low-cost, high-performance and large-scale application technologies, industrial applications will develop from low-end to high-end and from small-scale to large-scale development, and the graphene industry is expected to be in the future.
Battery application prospect is promising
China Economic Times: The most important thing is graphene, graphene battery has hope in electric bicycle, electric car and even cell phone. How is the development progressing?
Zhao Meng: Batteries, especially car batteries, are one of the hottest applications of graphene. Graphene has good thermal conductivity, which can improve the heat dissipation of batteries, and because of its good electrical conductivity, graphene can also increase the power density of batteries. Huawei applies it to cell phone batteries, mainly focusing on heat dissipation.
It can be said that if graphene can really effectively improve battery capacity and achieve fast charging, it will directly hit the pain point of large-scale promotion of power batteries, which is of great significance to graphene. The industrial upgrading of lead-acid battery industry. But the extraction and application technology of graphene has not yet made a revolutionary breakthrough, and the cost of graphene materials is very high. At present, graphene batteries are still in the laboratory stage and cannot reach mass production. In the short to medium term, it is also difficult to put graphene batteries into the electric vehicle market.
Six aspects should be taken into account
China Economic Times: What are your suggestions for the healthy and stable development of graphene industry in 2019?
Zhao Meng: Today, the graphene industry is gradually moving from the laboratory to the critical development stage of industrialization, and it is necessary to avoid the graphene "Great Leap Forward" movement. Both the government, enterprises and investors should hold their breath and take one step at a time.
First, strengthen the macro-strategic guidance. It is necessary to re-evaluate the development direction and stage of China's graphene industry to avoid directional errors and deviations. Meanwhile, strengthen the macro guidance of graphite resource development, raw material preparation and downstream application, promote the seamless integration of upstream and downstream industry chain, and guide the scientific, orderly and healthy development of graphene industry.
Second, insist on differentiated development. To give full play to regional advantages, according to the current situation of local industrial development and development advantages, promote the differentiated and characteristic development of graphene industry, and avoid the duplication of low-end homogenization.
Third, pay attention to the integration of downstream applications. As a new material, graphene needs constant application verification by the market. Therefore, it is especially important to develop the downstream application market. It can be combined with the opportunity of transformation and upgrading of traditional industries in the region to promote the integration of graphene with existing industries. For example, choose a number of graphene products with better industrialization prospects and more mature technologies to carry out pilot projects.
Fourth, focus on high-end layout. In response to national strategic needs, the company will layout new generation information technology, aerospace equipment, new energy and other fields to break through a number of global leading, forward-looking and driving key technologies to lead the international level.
Fifth, improve the construction of service platforms. Improve the infrastructure construction and service level of the graphene industrial park (base), strengthen the construction of public service platforms for R&D, pilot testing, industrialization, product testing and certification, and increase the introduction of high-end talents and forms of perfect industry-university-research cooperation system.
Finally, strengthen financial services support. Guide local emerging industry development funds and other government funds to invest in graphene industry projects, encourage social capital and various venture capital funds to flow to graphene industry, promote banks and other financial institutions to dock with graphene enterprises, etc. In order to develop the graphene industry development "grass feet".
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