The lightest kayak in the World made with HexaBond by Graphenest & Sipre
Graphenest announces the lightest kayak in the World
The lightest* surfski kayak in the World with 5.75 m that weighs just 9.3 kg was achieved by a joint ventures between Graphenest and Sipre.
Today, Graphenest is proud to announce the lightest* surfski kayak in the World weighing just 9.3 kg with all the accessories, born from a joint ventures between Graphenest and Sipre, a Portuguese kayak manufacturer famed for their flatwater, ocean and open water kayaks.
This lightweight surfski kayak was first revealed during Graphenest’s pitch on Techstars Autonomous Technology Acceleration Demo Day event on the 20th of April at Boston, which was attended by 500 people including US Air Force and US Business Angels.
This engineering accomplishment was enabled by substituting the ordinarily used epoxy resin by Graphenest’s HexaBond epoxy resin system for fiber reinforced composites. HexaBond can be applied in any fiber reinforced composites to improve mechanical strength, durability and chemical resistance. Hexabond is able to increase the strength of carbon fiber composites up to 24%, while simultaneously reducing weight by 10%.
HexaBond targets a $7 billion market as an epoxy resin for automotive and high-performance sporting goods. Further achievements and news will be unfolded in the near future.
* To the best of our knowledge
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May 07th, 2018, Written by Rui Silva from Graphenest
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Graphenest Announces New Website Launch
Graphenest Announces New Website Launch
After two months of hard work and dedication, we are delighted to officially announce the launch of Graphenest’s brand new website at www.graphenest.com.
Our goal with this new website is to provide our visitors an easier way to learn about Graphenest’s solutions, products, current technologies and applications, allowing them to know how to build the next graphene-based generation of products.
Graphenest is the leading provider of graphene-based industrial solutions. It aims to drive the future with graphene, an extraordinary nanomaterial, through a fast, highly cost-effective, and environmentally friendly proprietary method, unlocking previous cost-prohibitive applications for automotive, aerospace, defense and packaging markets, such as electromagnetic shielding coatings, anticorrosive coatings, gas barrier films, and reinforced polymers/composites.
Graphenest new website will be updated on a regular basis with news of product launches, business activity, corporate milestones, events, and media info. Sign up for news at https://graphenest.com/contact/ and check FAQ’s at https://graphenest.com/support/.
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These 10 companies are building ‘counter-drone’ tech in the Air Force accelerator
These 10 companies are building ‘counter-drone’ tech in the Air Force accelerator
As drones become more widely used, both in the public and private sectors, we’ll need increasingly sophisticated supporting technologies to keep the systems safe and secure.
With the help of Powered by TechStars, the component of the Boston-based accelerator that runs bespoke programs, the Air Force has welcomed 10 companies in to a three-month-long accelerator program specifically for what it calls counter-drone technologies. The cohort kicked off on Jan. 22.
In an interview with FedScoop in November Capt. Steven D. Lauver, cofounder of the accelerator idea, said the Air Force was taking a broad view of “counter-drone” — companies working on any number of different ideas from tracking tech to sensor tech and beyond could end up in the group. The Air Force did have some criteria in mind, however, like dual utility in the private sector and government, technical viability and operational interest, Lauver said.
According to a slide deck introducing the participant companies, now almost one month in the program, the technologies represented really do run the gamut.
Graphenest, for example, is a Portugal-based nanotech company producing graphene nanoplatelets for protecting coatings, printed electronics (with graphene-based conductive inks) and more. URSA, meanwhile, does forensic research on data from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and SICdrone has built a faster and more maneuverable drone. There’s also a wireless security company, a radar that helps drones avoid collision and an aerospace parts supply chain trackingcompany.
All of the companies have relocated to Boston for the duration of the accelerator program — demo day is scheduled for April 19.
The Air Force does not invest in the companies directly, but according to this report, the TechStars venture fund has committed $20,000 to each company in exchange for a 6 percent stake.
As FedScoop has previously reported, this accelerator initially grew out of a school project Lauver and his classmates undertook at Squadron Officer School in 2016. To Lauver, the fact that his idea got this far is rare, and a testament to a new way of thinking within the federal government.
“We’re at a place now where the government is thinking differently,” he told FedScoop. “There’s willingness all across the force to better engage with entrepreneurial communities, with nontraditional contractors and to do things differently.”
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February 19th, 2018, Originally Written by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier
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