Spun out of the Unversity of Pennsylvania's UPstart program, Graphene Frontiers is organized around development of roll-to-roll production and transfer of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene films. The firm employs its proprietary chemical vapor deposition technology to enable the continuous production of uniform, meter length, single layer graphene films. Graphene is a perfect monolayer of carbon atoms, packed into a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice. Despite its short history as an experimental system, graphene has already revealed exciting new physics. Because its technology uses less energy than competing means of graphene production, Graphene Frontiers is able to provide low-cost yet high quality graphene materials that can be used in both military military and industrial applications with specific applications including flexible and transparent electrodes, RF electronics, and field effect transistor based chemical sensors. Graphene Frontier's material is designed to be used as a transparent conductor and encapsulating ultra-high barrier film for thin, flexible electronics, including organic light emitting diode (OLED) and organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. Solving the two key problems that currently limit production and device lifetime, 1) Lack of high performance, cost effective, transparent flexible conductors and 2) Need for ultra-high barrier films compatible with roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing processes, graphene films produced by Graphene Frontiersâ atmospheric pressure growth and novel transfer methods allowing device manufacturers to replace multiple conductive and encapsulating layers with a single nanometer-scale thin film, enabling the cost-effective, R2R production of next generation organic electronics
