Goodfellow Corporation Offers Graphene Variant Produced Through a New “Metal-Free” Methane Process

April 11, 2019

William Kucinski

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Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based Goodfellow Corporation (Goodfellow) is taking graphene and going “green,” offering an ultra-pure, metal-free variant of the industry-disrupting material.

Unlike exfoliation production methods, where graphene is created by separating layers of graphite, Goodfellow’s process involves breaking methane gas – a very potent greenhouse gas – into hydrogen and elemental carbon atoms in a plasma reactor. The carbon atoms recombine into graphene sheets in the hydrogen atmosphere.

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The resulting graphene nanoplatelets are very thin, slightly crumpled, and do not stack (unlike exfoliated materials), ensuring optimal electrical, thermal, and mechanical performance. These characteristics make Goodfellow’s “green” graphene an extremely good nanofiller for electronic inks, polymers, metal composites, surface coating, and other metal-sensitive applications.

William Kucinski is content editor at SAE International, Aerospace Products Group in Warrendale, Pa. Previously, he worked as a writer at the NASA Safety Center in Cleveland, Ohio and was responsible for writing the agency’s System Failure Case Studies. His interests include literally anything that has to do with space, past and present military aircraft, and propulsion technology.

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