Graphene Square, a cutting-edge new materials company, announced on the 1th that it received the Best Innovation Awards ahead of the opening of the world’s largest IT exhibition ‘CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2023’ to be held in Las Vegas, USA in January next year.
CTA, which hosts CES, announced 11 future innovations, including Graphene Square’s ‘Graphene Radiator’, at the ‘Best of Innovation’ presentation event held in New York on November 16 (US time). Innovative products unveiled.
The ‘CES Best of Innovation’ is an honor given only to products that have achieved the most innovation among the ‘CES Innovation Awards’. At CES last January, in which over 8 companies from around the world participated, 1 ‘innovation awards’ were awarded. The competition is so fierce that only 574 of the ‘Awards’ were selected for the ‘Best Innovation Award’.
‘Graphene Radiator’ is a new concept heating appliance that utilizes the excellent heat generation properties of graphene, the thinnest and strongest material in the world. Not only can various images and information be displayed realistically through the holographic display, but it can also be easily folded and carried with its ‘Z’ shaped foldable structure.
Graphene is a cutting-edge nanomaterial in which carbon atoms are connected in a honeycomb shape to form a single-layer plane. It is stronger than steel, has better conductivity than copper, and has an electron movement speed 100 times that of silicon, while being flexible and transparent, making it a ‘dream.’ It is called ‘new material of’.
Graphene Square, founded in 2012 by CEO Hong Byeong-hee, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Seoul National University and head of the Graphene Research Center at the Next Generation Convergence Technology Institute, is a local venture company leading the commercialization of large-area graphene using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and began full-scale last year. After moving the headquarters to Pohang for manufacturing, a ‘graphene wafer’ production line was recently completed.
CEO Hong Byeong-hee said, “Graphene heaters can save up to 30% energy compared to existing coil-type heaters and generate almost no electromagnetic waves, making them environmentally friendly. “It can be easily attached to windows, mirrors, picture frames, etc., and is thin and transparent, maximizing space and interior usability,” he emphasized.