Graphene paint has been invented, and it makes your house super efficient
The Graphene Company has invented graphene paint, a type of paint that contains the “thinnest, strongest and most conductive” substance in the world, designed at making homes more efficient.
The company used graphene, the strongest material known to science, to create a lime-based paint that is beneficial for the environment and capable of making buildings more efficient by improving their thermal regulation. More specifically, it lowers the necessity for heating and air conditioning.
”When used on interior wall surfaces, rather than heat being radiated through the walls, the graphene within the paint captures the heat. It then conducts the heat through the paint, and across the whole Graphenstone-painted surface of interior walls. This enhances the insulation measures used in buildings by slowing heat conduction through walls and out of buildings,” said The Graphene Company director, Patrick Folkes.
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As the paint has a base made from 98 percent pure lime, it purifies the surrounding air because it absorbs carbon dioxide. The company claims that the paint is “the most sustainable and eco-friendly paint in the world”.
“Sustainability is becoming more and more important as people realise the damage that acrylics do to the environment throughout the manufacturing process and its use on walls,” said Folkes. “Graphene’s inclusion in paints, coatings and other building materials exponentially enhances hardness, durability, compression, tensile strength, elasticity, and coverage,” he explained.
The paint has already been used for hospital, hotel and school walls, and the demand keeps increasing.
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