Versarien plc (LON:VRS), the advanced materials engineering group, has today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries (“IAI”) to enable both groups to work together to develop and test Versarien’s proprietary Nanene few layer graphene nano-platelets in aerospace composite structures.
Neill Ricketts talks to DirectorsTalk about it’s collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries. Neill tells us more about the nature of the collaboration, how it came about, and how is it developing and more about the potential benefits and uses of Nanene in the aerospace sector.
IAI is a world leader in both the defence and commercial markets, delivering state-of-the-art technologies and systems in the domains of: air, space, land, sea, cyber, homeland security and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
IAI has agreed to purchase Nanene from Versarien, in a variety of forms, which will then be incorporated into composite panels for testing and evaluation, with a view to developing commercial applications for the technology. The collaboration is additionally expected to incorporate discussions and work with IAI’s supply chain.
Moshe Medina, EVP and General Manager of IAI’s Engineering and Development Group, commented: “IAI looks forward to collaborating with Versarien on graphene based composites, which we believe will help us create stronger and multi-functional materials. It is an ongoing challenge to harnesses the excellent micro-properties of graphene for enhancement of our composites.”
Neill Ricketts, CEO of Versarien Plc, commented: “We are delighted to be working with IAI, a global leader in aerospace technologies, to incorporate our graphene into a variety of composite structures. We will be working closely with the teams at IAI and their suppliers to test and evaluate the benefits of adding graphene to a variety of composite structures.
“The agreement with IAI is a significant step forward for Versarien, our first graphene collaboration in the aerospace sector, but it is just one example of the global relationships we are developing. There is increasing interest in the benefits that high quality graphene, of the types manufactured by Versarien, can add to material properties and we look forward to announcing further collaborations in due course.”