SGL Group Honors Profeor Klaus Mllen with the Felcht Award for Services to Graphene Research

07-19-2013 SGL Group Honors Professor Klaus M llen with the Felcht Award for Services to Graphene Research Wiesbaden, July 19, 2013. SGL Group The Carbon Company has honored Professor Klaus M llen with the Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award for his research into the synthesis of tailored graphenes. Professor M llen, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, received the award on July 18 at the International Carbon Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dr Gerd Wingefeld, a member of the SGL Group Board of Management, said: We present the Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award to honor outstanding scientific and technological contributions in the field of carbon and ceramic materials. The extremely strong, electrically conductive carbon material, graphene, has immense application potential in computer chip manufacture, as a composite material for energy storage in batteries and fuel cells, and as a catalyst. Professor M llen and his team have made an important contribution here. The synthesis process developed by him makes it possible for the first time to produce graphene nanoribbons with precisely defined shape and size.

Graphene is a very good electrical conductor, ultralight, stronger than steel, chemically resistant, and virtually transparent. In 2010, Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on this two-dimensional carbon material. In 2013, the European Commission chose Graphene as one of its first large-scale research projects to be funded with up to a billion euros over 10 years under the Future and Emerging Technologies Flagships (FET) initiative.

About the Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award The Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award was founded in 2010 in honor of the former Supervisory Board Chairman of SGL Group, Utz-Hellmuth Felcht.

The Award is given in recognition of individual scientific and technological contributions that have had recent significant impact on the field of carbon and graphite materials or have represented a scientific breakthrough. The Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award is presented biennially at the International Carbon Conference held by turn in Asia, Europe, and the USA. Selection of the awardees is undertaken by an International Award Committee composed of six renowned scientists and persons of high standing in industry.

The Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award was given for the first time in 2011 to Professor Walter de Heer from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA (Georgia Tech) for his services to the development of graphene-based nanoelectronics.

About the Awardee - Professor Dr Klaus M llen Klaus M llen gained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Basel and received his habilitation in 1977 at ETH, Z rich. In 1979 he became a Professor at the University of Cologne, and in 1983 at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz. Since 1989, Professor M llen has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz.

He has won many awards, including the Max Planck Research Prize (1993), Philip Morris Research Prize (1997), Nozoe Award (2001), Belgian Polymer Group Award (2006), Innovation Award (2008), and Society of Polymer Science Japan International Award.

With over 1500 published articles, numerous patents, and regular presentations at conferences and symposia worldwide, Professor M llen ensures dissemination of his knowledge and a lively exchange of information and ideas. As President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (Society of German Chemists) (2008-2009) and through many national and international research projects, he has made an important contribution to the further development of polymer research.

About SGL Group The Carbon Company SGL Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of carbon-based products and materials. It has a comprehensive portfolio ranging from carbon and graphite products to carbon fibers and composites. SGL Group's core competencies are its expertise in high-temperature technology as well as its applications and engineering know-how gained over many years. These competencies enable the Company to make full use of its broad material base. SGL Group's carbon-based materials combine several unique properties such as very good electrical and thermal conductivity, heat and corrosion resistance as well as high mechanical strength combined with low weight. Due to industrialization in the growth regions of Asia and Latin America and increased substitution of traditional with innovative materials, there is a growing demand for SGL Group's high-performance materials and products. Products from SGL Group are used predominantly in the steel, aluminum, automotive and chemical industries as well as in the semiconductor, solar and LED sectors and in lithium-ion batteries. Carbon-based materials and products are also being used increasingly in the wind power, aerospace and defense industries.

With 45 production sites in Europe, North America and Asia as well as a service network covering more than 100 countries, SGL Group is a company with a global presence. In 2012, the Company's workforce of around 6,700 employees generated sales of 1,709 million. The Company's head office is located in Wiesbaden.

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