Prof Ahmed Elmarakbi from Sunderland University with a prototype composite component made with Graphene Picture: DAVID WOOD
A University of Sunderland academic working on graphene for use in the automotive industry has produced a prototype composite component. Ahmed Elmarakbi, Professor of Automotive Composites at the University, is leading Task 10.11 – Composites for Automotive, part of the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technology Flagship.
The project is exploring how graphene which is just one atom thick and a million times thinner than human hair, could be used to create lighter, stronger, safer and more energy-efficient vehicles revolutionising the global car industry.
Sunderland, leading a consortium of five research partners from Italy, Spain and Germany, over the last two years has been conducting a series of tests with support from Centro Ricerche CRF of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, analysing the properties of graphene to determine how it behaves when used to enhance the advanced composite materials in vehicle production.
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