Custom Materials for the Industry's Toughest Challenges

Vorbeck and Princeton named to The Science Coalition's "100 Success Stories" list for the development and commercialization of Vor-x graphene materials and composites. The Success Stories list is part of The Science Coalition's "Sparking Economic Growth" report.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Vorbeck Materials is a privately held specialty materials company established to manufacture and develop applications around Vor-x™, a novel graphene (carbon) nanomaterial developed by Professors Ilhan Aksay and Robert Prud’homme in the Princeton University Department of Chemical Engineering.

Described as the “strongest, most conductive material known,” graphene is an emerging force in high performance materials.

Until now, the manufacture of single-sheet graphene on a ton scale has not been commercially feasible. In response to this industry need, Vorbeck has licensed core technology from Princeton University to develop a unique, scalable process for manufacturing graphene in ton quantities.

NASA has used functionalized graphene sheets from Vorbeck Materials — describing the company as “the only known source, based on their exclusive license from Princeton University, able to use proprietary processes to manufacture functionalized graphene materials.”

Recently, BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corporation established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials. As part of the collaboration, Vorbeck and BASF are developing dispersions of highly conductive graphene for producing electrically conductive coating and compounds for the electronics industry.

UNIVERSITY-BASED RESEARCH CONNECTION:
Vorbeck Materials Corporation is based on technologies developed in the Princeton University Department of Chemical Engineering.

ROLE OF FEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDING:
The research to develop the technologies behind Vorbeck was supported in part through federal funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation.