Our Proprietary Technology
The Universal Matter Advantage
Graphene and Related Advanced Materials in a Flash
Our patented Flash Joule Heating (FJH) process produces high quality graphene and related advanced materials from sustainable and cost effective carbon sources in a flash.
We subject our feedstock to a short burst of electricity, heating it to over 3,000°C and breaking all chemical bonds. All non-carbon-based impurities are flashed off leaving the carbon to reorder into turbostratic graphene and the resulting products are >99% carbon.
This new manufacturing process can be used on many carbon-based feedstocks, including petroleum coke, metallurgical coke, biomass, carbon from recycled plastic and rubber, methane derived carbon, carbon black, and even food waste.
Flash Joule Heating is a platform technology for Green Chemistry. This technology can ultimately be used to recycle, upcycle, and transform a wide range of materials or waste into valuable, highly effective nanomaterials.
FJH creates high quality graphene and related advanced materials with 3 distinct morphologies providing our solutions with superior properties that are critical for large industries
Unlike our competitors with only 2D morphology, 1D, 2D and 3D tunable morphologies from FJH adds critical value to high volume industrial applications while reducing their carbon footprint
Our process creates a pure, highly effective, economical, and environmentally friendly family of graphene-based solutions.
- Highly Effective Turbostratic graphene with low defects. Dispersed in mediums for ease of addition into downstream processes. Effective interaction with the host material to enhance improvements in mechanical properties and electrical & thermal conductivity properties.
- Economical: The FJH process has proven to be highly scalable and can utilize diverse low-cost carbon feedstock streams. Performance benefits create substantial value.
- Sustainable: Production requires only electricity, rather than chemicals and reactive gases. Inputs include low value and recycled carbon waste streams.
- Diverse Morphologies and Structures 1D, 2D, and 3D morphologies with tailored surface characteristics.
Our Expertise
Identifying the characteristics of the graphene and related advanced materials required for each market/application to deliver performance benefits is the first step in providing value to the users. However, there is equal or greater value in the ability to robustly transfer these outstanding intrinsic properties into other materials, thus creating higher value materials and products which possess specifically enhanced characteristics.
This is where Universal Matter excels. We can effectively disperse our graphene and related advanced materials into a range of solid and liquid dispersions that ensure they are safe to handle and easy to incorporate into our customers’ operations.