The launching ceremony of the Steering Committee of the ICMU held in Beijing

On June 6, 2023, the launching ceremony of the Steering Committee of the International Carbon Materials Union (ICMU) was held at the 5th Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Graphene Conference.

Nobel laureate Professor Konstantin Novoselov (6th from right), Jiang Shicheng, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (7th from right), Liu Yunqi, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (7th from left), Wang Shouguo, Foreign Academician of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine (5th from right), Anatoly Nikolaevich, Professor at Drexel University, USA (6th from left), Alla Yesypenko, Academician of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine (4th from right), Ge Qi, Deputy Director of National University of Singapore (5th from left), Qu Hongliang, General Manager of Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical Company (3rd from right), Wang Xudong, President of Beijing Institute of Graphene Technology (4th from left), Xu Li, CEO of the Beijing Graphene Research Institute (BGI) Co., Ltd (2nd from right), Ge Guanglu, Director of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, and the Key Laboratory of Standardzation and Measurement of Nanotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (3rd from left), Ren Lingling, Director of the Director of Laboratory of New Materials Metrology of Center for Advanced Measurement Science of National Institute of Metrology, China (2nd from left), William Liu, Vice President and Secretary-General of the Beijing Association for Advanced Carbon Industry Promotion (1st from right), Jin Zhan, Executive Vice President of Chongqing 2D Materials Institute (1st from left), and other 14 guests jointly unveiled the Steering Committee of ICMU.

Vladimir Falko, Director of the National Graphene Research Institute (NGI), Antonio Correia, Chairman of the 2023 Graphene Conference, Manchester, UK, Thoroh de Souza, Chair of Graphene and Nanomaterials Research Center- Brazil, Denis Koltsov, Chair of ISO Technical Committee 229 (ISO TC/229, Nanotechnology), and Matt Walker, Former official of the UK Department for International Trade, warmly congratulated the establishment of the Steering Committee of  ICMU by online video.

The union aims to craft an open, forward-looking platform for carbon material technology and industry, as well as international exchange. The members of the union will cover authoritative scientific research institutions, industrialization leading enterprises, science and technology industrialization service institutions, third-party testing or evaluation institutions and other leading business entities with technical advantages in the field of carbon materials in the world represented by graphene; Union members from different countries will achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in intellectual property rights, standard formulation, market expansion, etc., and jointly promote the transformation of science and technology industry in the field of carbon materials; The Union will set up several branches in many countries around the world to provide members with financial, technical, intellectual property, legal, market development and other services to assist member enterprises to grow fast.