Graphene has moved swiftly from the research laboratory to the marketplace, driven by demand from markets where advanced materials are required. These include the aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy storage, solar, oil service, and lubricant sectors. The distinctive electronic, thermal and mechanical properties of graphene make it a potentially disruptive technology across a raft of industries. In 2010, there were over 400 patents issued on graphene and 3,000 research papers published. The European Union is funding a 10 year 1,000 million euro coordination action on graphene. South Korea is set to spend $350 million on commercialization initiatives and the United Kingdom has announced investment of £50million in a new commercialization hub.

Applications will be coming onto the market soon for highly conductive and super strong composites, transparent conductive coatings in touch-screen displays, photodiodes and high frequency transistors. Graphene-based conducting inks are also finding their way into smart cards and radio-frequency identification tags. In the past 18 months market demand has increased by over 4,000% for these materials.

Most graphene manufacturers currently produce graphene nanoplatelets and graphene oxide and plan to scale-up production considerably over the next 18 months. Producers are generally small, start-up companies who have witnessed an explosion in demand for their materials from a variety of industries. Multi-national companies such as IBM and Samsung are aggressively pursuing applications for graphene in electronics and optics. However, most near-term demand is for composites and electrodes for application in the automotive, plastics, metals, aerospace and energy markets.

WHAT DOES THE REPORT INCLUDE?
· Comprehensive quantitative data and forecasts for the global graphene market to 2017
· Qualititative insight and perspective on the current market and future trends in end user markets based on interviews with key exectutives
· End user market analysis and technology roadmaps
· Patent analysis
· Tables and figures illustrating graphene market size by tons and by end user demand
· Full company profiles of graphene producers and application developers including technology descriptions and end user markets targetted

WHO SHOULD BUY THIS REPORT?
· Advanced materials producers, application developers; sales and marketing departments
· Graphene suppliers/manufacturers
· Fullerenes and carbon nanotubes suppliers/manufacturers
· Technology consultants and analysts, venture capitalists, and readers interested in the advanced materials market
· New technology teams and application developers in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy storage, solar, oil service, sensing and imaging and lubricant industries


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. REPORT METHODOLOGY

3. INTRODUCTION
 What is graphene?
 Definition
 Properties
 Commerical types
 Comparison with nanoclays and carbon nanotubes
 Cost comparison

4. GRAPHENE PRODUCTION METHODS
 Bottom-up
 Top-down
 Chemical Vapor Deposition
 Exfoliation
 Epitaxial growth
 Wet chemistry
 Micromechanical cleavage

5. GRAPHENE PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS
 Number of publications per annum
 Number of patents per annum

6. GRAPHENE PRODUCTION VOLUME AND MARKET DEMANDS
 Graphene producers
 Production capacity
 Price
 Markets

7. MARKETS AND APPLICATIONS FOR GRAPHENE
 Market technology roadmaps
 Aerospace
 Automotive
 Coatings and paints
 Communications
 Composites
 Electronics, optoelectronics and data storage
 Energy
 Sensors

8. GRAPHENE PRODUCERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND APPLICATION DEVELOPERS
 Amo GmbH
 Angstron Materials
 BASF
 Carben Semicon Ltd.
 CVD Equipment Corp.
 Durham Graphene Science
 Fujitsu Laboratories
 Graphene Devices Ltd.
 Graphene Energy, Inc.
 Graphene Frontiers
 Graphene Industries Ltd.
 Graphene Works, Inc.
 Graphenea Nanomaterials
 Harbin Mulan Foreign Economic Trade Co.
 HRL Laboratories, LLC
 Intel Corporation
 IBM
 Intel
 Nanointegris
 Nanosperse LLC
 Nanotek Instruments, Inc.
 Quantum Materials Corporation
 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
 Texas Instruments, Inc.
 Vorbeck Materials Corporation
 XG Sciences
 Xiamen knano graphene Technology Co.,Ltd.
 Xolve
 XP Nano Material Co. Ltd.
 
9. PROMINENT GRAPHENE RESEARCH CENTERS
 Brookhaven National Laboratory
 Cornell University
 Georgia Tech
 Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME), Warsaw
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 Michigan State University
 Princeton University
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 Rutgers University
 Stanford University
 Sungkyunkwan University
 University of Manchester
 University of Texas, Austin

10. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS 2010-2011
TABLES AND FIGURES
 Graphene production in tons, 2010
 Estimated graphene production in tons, 2017
 Graphene production in tons 2008-2017
 Demand for graphene, by market, tons, 2010
 Demand for graphene, by market, tons, 2017
 Demand for graphene, by market, tons, 2010-2017
 Market drivers
 Market challenges
 Research papers on graphene, 2004-2010
 Patent publications for graphene, 2004-2010
 Graphene producers, production capacities per year, price and end user markets
 Commercialization timeline and market demand for graphene in the aerospace market
 Commercialization timeline and market demand for graphene in the automotive market
 Commercialization timeline and market demand for graphene in the communications market
 
9. PROMINENT GRAPHENE RESEARCH CENTERS
 Brookhaven National Laboratory
 Cornell University
 Georgia Tech
 Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME), Warsaw
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 Michigan State University
 Princeton University
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 Rutgers University
 Stanford University
 Sungkyunkwan University
 University of Manchester
 University of Texas, Austin

10. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS 2010-2011
TABLES AND FIGURES
 Graphene production in tons, 2010
 Estimated graphene production in tons, 2017
 Graphene production in tons 2008-2017
 Demand for graphene, by market, tons, 2010
 Demand for graphene, by market, tons, 2017
 Demand for graphene, by market, tons, 2010-2017
 Market drivers
 Market challenges
 Research papers on graphene, 2004-2010
 Patent publications for graphene, 2004-2010
 Graphene producers, production capacities per year, price and end user markets
 Commercialization timeline and market demand for graphene in the aerospace market
 Commercialization timeline and market demand for graphene in the automotive market
 Commercialization timeline and market demand for graphene in the communications market