September 25, by the National Development and Reform Commission of China Investment Association emerging industry center jointly Tianyuan Xi Wang, the former sea Indus jointly set up the scale of 20 billion yuan of graphene industry parent fund officially launched in Nanjing. The fund to “capital + industry” as the core, the construction of graphene ecological circle, to solve the problem of slow development of graphene industry, to help innovation and development.

Graphene is the world’s thinnest, hardest, least resistive nanomaterials with ultra-high strength and ultra-high thermal conductivity. However, downstream applications of graphene are advancing slowly. Data show that the current annual production capacity of domestic graphene material to maintain at around 3,000 tons, while the demand is only 100 tons. The downstream market for graphene remains to be further developed.

Tianyuan Xi, general manager of Huang Li Gui said that the industry are exploring two issues: First, how to get high purity graphene, the other is graphene can be applied to all walks of life. “As of 2016, we got 9022 patents related to graphene, half of which are domestic applications, and the biggest challenge is that there is no material breakthrough in downstream applications of graphene.”

Not a lot of reasons to break, there are technologies, standards, consumer habits and many other issues, capital investment is not an important reason. National Development and Reform Commission, vice president of China Investment Association, said Liu Ren, industrial development needs financial support, especially the demand for investment in graphene industry is huge. China Investment Association, the emerging industry center jointly with the former sea Wutong M & A fund, Tianyuan Xi Wang co-sponsored the total size of 20 billion yuan of China’s graphene industry parent fund, is to through the fund to promote the development of graphene industry technology, project incubation, product innovation and development , Gravel industry upstream and downstream of the key areas of application of industrial integration and conversion of graphene scientific and technological achievements.

Former sea Indus president Xie Wen Li said that the former sea Indus choice of investment must be able to solve the pain of society. The reason why the application of graphene is not widely promoted is a problem in the supply and cost of raw materials. When the cost of the material does not have the market competitiveness of the time, manufacturers will not dare on the scale, otherwise it will be a loss. At this point, if the capital with the power to find more innovative graphene enterprises to help the healthy growth of enterprises, will be able to achieve the fastest speed of graphene industrialization.