Ultra Conductive Materials
The UltraWire is a technology development and commercialisation platform supporting a community of technology development leaders and industrial end-users working on commercialisation of applications of nano-carbon and metal based conductive materials and composites.
Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology (CNT Ltd), was one of the partners involved in the UltraWire project, in charge of the Exploitation and Dissemination. Since the end of the project, CNT has continued running conferences/workshops in order to build a community supporting commercialisation of ultra-conductive materials and development of nano-carbon and metal composites based technologies for a number of applications, including electrical energy transmission and transport, by bringing together technology development leaders and industrial end-users.
The UltraWire project was funded by European Commission 7th Framework Programme (EC FP7). The project started on the 1st October 2013 and finished on the 30th September 2016 with the participation of 14 partners. The aim of the project was to develop a copper nanocarbon composite with significantly improved overall properties, including electrical, thermal and mechanical performances over bulk copper using production process that will be scalable to large volume manufacture.
We have organised several UltraWire workshops, the first two, as part of the project to help exploitation and dissemination of results of the EC FP7 project UltraWire (Ultra Conductive Copper-Carbon Nanotube Wire). After the end of the project, with the aim to support commercialisation ultra-conductive materials and development of nano-carbon and metal composites based technologies.
The first Workshop took place in September 2015 in Cambridge, UK with 42 participants attending; the second, in September 2016 in Leuven, Belgium with 50 participants; and the last two workshops have been in Cambridge, UK in July 2017 and 2018 with 45 participants in both occasions.
UltraWire Online Workshop 2020
Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd organised, the UltraWire Workshop 2020 on 2nd July 2020 in order to support commercialisation of nano-carbon wire technology and development of nano-carbon materials and metal composites for a number of applications such as electrical energy transmission and transport, by bringing together technology development leaders and industrial end-users.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this workshop was rescheduled to be online.
Participants who attended this workshop, came from leading organisations such as: Whirlpool Corporation, Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), MBDA, Coatema Coating Machinery, Argonne National Laboratory, SH Wire, Prysmian Group, DZP Technologies, Haydale Composites Solutions, European Copper Institute, SENERGY, Q5D, Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology Ltd, UltraConductive Copper Company Inc., TWI, TMBK Partners Sp. z o.o, Graphene Laboratories, Inc., Nanoscience Centre- University of Cambridge and Brunel Composites Centre.
More information on the UltraWire Workshop 2020 you can read at workshops dedicated page,
UltraWire on BBC News!
The UltraWire project was featured at the BBC News Click programme. The programme was shown on TV for the first time on 9 April 2016 on the BBC News and the BBC World News channels and few more times in following days and weeks. It was available for download and viewing in the UK until February 2017 on the BBC iPlayer through this link:
The EC FP7 UltraWire project ended on 30 September 2016; however, the project partners and other researchers around the world are continuing development of this exciting technology.
