Graphene: Opportunities For Multifunctional Lightweight Structures In Automotive Sector

Anonino Veca, Fulvio Cascio, Francesco Gazza, Chiara Mastropasqua, Brunetto Martorana

The global automotive industry is currently facing great challenges, such as responsibility for increasing CO2 emissions, lack of strong decarbonisation targets, and safety issues. It is also widely viewed as being the industry in which the greatest volume of advanced composite materials will be used in the future to produce light vehicles.
The study of novel composite materials, including graphene-based composites, and their potential applications in automotive industry, will be strategic for developing new lightweight and multifunctional structures for the automotive sector.