
Dickinson Corporation is a private materials lab in the San Francisco Bay Area that has developed a new category of ultralight, high-strength metamaterials constructed from atomically thin base materials like graphene. Our work is premised upon scaling the extraordinary strength and other capabilities of two-dimensional materials over large-scale three-dimensional spaces.
From the cradle of mineral extraction to the grave of landfilled and unsequestered waste, the footprint of industry and human activity can be framed as mass in, mass out, and mass in transit. At Dickinson, our mission is to pioneer a paradigm shift from bulk-phase legacy materials toward lighter, stronger metamaterials that reduce our industrial footprint by reducing the mass of our materials.
Dickinson's materials research is privately funded. Our activities include basic research, application development, and pilot-scale manufacturing at our R&D facility in northern California. We are actively collaborating with industry-leading manufacturers to incorporate Dickinson's architected graphene particles and architected graphene composites in their products and systems.
Manufacturers can reduce the density and weight of their polymer products by introducing a dispersed phase of architected graphene microparticles. Compared to the hollow microspheres used in syntactic foams, architected graphenes offer a lighter, stronger, and tougher additive.
We are developing novel reinforcement materials that increase the strength, stiffness, energy absorption, and toughness of polymers. We are particularly interested in architected graphenes with novel elastic mechanics as an innovative reinforcement strategy for elastomers and thermoplastics.
We have developed thermally conductive fillers that combine the extraordinary thermal conductivity of monolayer graphene with an isotropic, three-dimensional particle morphology that enables these particles to be dispersed and flow at much higher loadings than nanotubes or nanosheets.
Formulators accustomed to working with nanotubes or other carbon nanoparticles will appreciate our easily-dispersed, electrically conductive graphene microfibers, which are designed for maximum electrical conductivity at low percolation thresholds.
Manufacturers of next-generation battery electrodes and supercapacitors will benefit from a new category of mesoporous or macroporous architected graphene particles and films with exceptional design control over density, porosity, surface area, and morphology.
Many other applications can benefit from a category of three-dimensional graphene-based materials (both particles and films) characterized by exceptional, multiscale architectural control. Please contact us to find out what we can do for you!
Dickinson is collaborating with several industry-leading manufacturers to bring the benefits of architected graphene additives and films to their polymer products. We work closely with partners to design application-tailored architected graphenes that meet their criteria for value and performance and that are highly differentiated from their other alternatives.
Additionally, Dickinson is fostering collaborative relationships with university and government research groups to increase awareness of our materials in peer-reviewed journals. In particular, our team is interested in collaborating with experts in computational mechanics and multiscale modeling to build the structure-property map of architected graphenes and associated composite materials.
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