Qingdao developed “breathable” graphene wall paint

Here are two crystal glass boxes A and B of the same size. Place a board painted with special paint at the bottom of box B, place an air detector in each box, and seal the boxes with plastic film. Then inject the same quantity of formaldehyde solution into them. Air detectors in both boxes instantly detected the volatile formaldehyde. However, 5 hours passed, air detectors in two boxes showed huge difference. The formaldehyde in the box B, the bottom board of which was painted, reduced by 50%, while the air inside the other box didn’t change.

In Qingdao ReaLeader Advanced Materials Co Ltd, located in Qingdao New High-Tech Zone, such a simple experiment shocked people. The deputy general manager Wang Xiaofei explained, it is the special paint in the box B making the difference, which is the 6-in-1 smart indoor paint developed by the company based on graphene materials.

Dr. Hou Shifeng, the president of the company, the leader of the project and expert of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, had been devoted to Nano new materials development and its application in environment and energy fields. Since 2009, he has turned eyes to graphene new materials; in particular, owning international research patents in graphene compound Nano materials. After research and experiment at the initial stage, he found the paint industry was easy for graphene to apply. So the company turned from the direction of graphene new materials research to the paint field.

Anti-formaldehyde paint developed by ReaLeader Advanced Materials, according to Hou,“can decompose the formaldehyde in air indoor into water and CO2, and degrade air pollutant such as nitric oxide. That means the paint will not cause indoor formaldehyde pollution, and also plays like an air purifier to decompose formaldehyde in the air. Painting the paint on the wall enables the wall to be breathable. It is the formaldehyde the wall breathes in.” (Ren Xiaomeng)