The Israeli Graphene Consortium was established in 2019 with the support of the Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA). The Consortium is part of the MAGNET program of the IIA. The Graphene Consortium is working on an innovative and groundbreaking, beyond state-of-the-art technologies for using Graphene in electronic circuits, targeting very high data transfer rates and efficient heat transfer and spreading. The consortium is researching both novel materials and new industrial processes for manufacturing, transferring, and applying Graphene for actual industrial electronics production lines.
Members of the Israeli Graphene Consortium are both Israeli industrial companies and Academic research teams that are working together to develop and test the Graphene based technologies in laboratory and real life environments.
The Israel Innovation Authority, an independent publicly funded agency, was thus created to provide a variety of practical tools and funding platforms.
Scientists have theorized about graphene for decades. It has likely been unknowingly produced in small quantities for centuries, through the use of pencils and other similar applications of graphite.