Graphene sensors for composite cure monitoring

26th March, 2025; Cambridge, UK

It’s great to see our collaborative project with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) about Composite cure monitoring being recognised in a case study on the Henry Royce Institute website. Composite materials are one of the hallmarks of modern materials science, often associated with motorsport, performance cars, and advanced aircraft. Yet, composite manufacture involves a lot of manual labour and skills gained over many years of experience, with limited options to monitor and control the cure process.

In this project, we worked with AMRC to develop our graphene sensor technology and evaluate its feasibility in composites. In fact, the graphene sensors can be used in many other applications, where monitoring the cure of structural adhesives, sealants, and resins is a key to superior mechanical performance and reliability; and where other existing sensor solutions cannot be easily applied.

Since this project, we have been working to scale up the embedding of graphene sensors into a civil composite structure for structural health monitoring, aided by machine learning algorithms being developed within the AMRC Composites Centre at the University of Sheffield through an Innovate UK funded grant.

At DZP Technologies, we are excited to see our printed graphene sensor being introduced in so many industries, bridging materials science with digital technology. We’ll share more news on this soon!