GE expects it will sell well for aerospace, power genera- tion and oil and gas applications. Automotive is another possible market.
— Brett Brune, Editor-in-Chief, Smart Manufacturing C
Sandvik Announces Graphene Challenge Winner
utting tool developer Sandvik Coromant (Fairlawn, NJ; Sandviken, Sweden) announced that Nadia Ayad, an undergraduate student in materials engineering at the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia—IME; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), is the winner of the company’s Gra- phene Challenge.
The competition, which ran from April to May 2016, invited individuals from around the world to submit ideas for sustainable innovations made from graphene that would rev- olutionize the modern household. Ayad submitted the idea of using graphene for a filtration and desalinization device and
system for desalinization that would provide drinkable water to households. Her idea would significantly reduce energy costs and strain on current water supplies by recycling water. As part of her prize, Ayad will be invited to Sandvik
Coromant’s headquarters in Sweden to meet with industry professionals and visit the Graphene Center at Chalmers University in Gothenberg. “I am absolutely thrilled to have been selected as the winner of the Graphene Challenge,” Ayad said. “I am really fascinated with the study and ap- plications of advanced materials so the opportunity to travel to Sweden to meet with leading researchers is one that I am really looking forward to.” Ayad was chosen from 10 top finalists by a distinguished panel of judges including David Goulbourne, product unit manager at Sandvik Coromant; Marco Zwinkels, R&D direc- tor, Technology Platforms at Sandvik Coromant; and Patrik Carlsson, director for the Graphene Centre at Chalmers University. The top 10 submissions were evaluated based on innovation, feasibility and design.
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