Patent concerns arise at UK National Graphene Institute
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029663
The Sunday Times : Researchers working on graphene at Manchester University in the UK are refusing to work at the new £61 million National Graphene Institute. They are concerned that the center, set up last year to find commercial ways to exploit the material, does not have adequate security to protect their research from exploitation by some of NGI’s outside partners, such as the Taiwanese company BGT Materials. The university denies the claims. Since graphene was discovered at the university in 2004, the UK has filed 1% of the patents related to the material, compared with 50% by China.
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Paul Guinnessy. pguinnes@aip.org