The Advisory Board of the ICMU Unveiled at the Beijing Graphene Forum

On October 25, 2023, the Advisory Board of the International Carbon Materials Union (ICMU) held an unveiling ceremony at the Beijing Graphene Forum (2023), the 5th-anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Beijing Graphene Institute, and the 30th-anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Center for Nanochemistry, Peking University.

At the ceremony, Academician Liu Zhongfan, Director of the Advisory Committee of the ICMU, Professor Konstantin Novoselov, Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the ICMU, Mao Dongjun, Deputy Director General of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, and William Liu, Secretary-General of the Beijing Association for Advanced Carbon Industry Promotion, jointly unveiled the Advisory Committee of the ICMU.

More than 800 people attended the ceremony, including Nobel Laureate Konstantin Novoselov, Academician Zhu Jingxu of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Academician Cheng Huiming of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Zhao Yuliang of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Zhang Jin, Vice President of Peking University, and many other internationally renowned scholars, as well as experts, entrepreneurs and representatives from scientific research institutes and enterprises.

The International Carbon Materials Union (ICMU) is an international public welfare NGO led by the Beijing Association for Advanced Carbon Industry Promotion and jointly initiated by leading industrialization institutions of carbon materials in the world, its members come from leading carbon materials enterprises, well-known scientific research institutions, professional service institutions and international societies across the world. The purpose is to build an open and forward-looking international exchange and cooperation platform for the industrialization of carbon material technology and promote the industrialization of carbon material technology. Members of the ICMU would adopt internal market-oriented operation models such as joint construction and sharing of intellectual property rights, collaborative innovation of international standards, win-win development of the global market, and extension and replenishment of the industrial chain, then they will be in line with the international market practices, integrate into the global scientific and technological innovation system, and promote the technological progress of the carbon material industry.