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It is learned that Suzhou Nofi Nano Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Nofi Nano”) announced the completion of the C-round financing of 100 million yuan, this round of financing by Chinese state-owned capital Venture Capital Fund Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Guofeng Investment Fund”) led the investment, Shenzhen SME Credit Financing Guarantee Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Shenzhen Zhongxiao Group”) and Shenzhen Gaoxintou Group Co., Ltd. “Shenzhen High-tech Investment Group” investment fund joint investment. According to public information, previously, Norfolk has received tens of millions of dollars in equity investments from Northern Light Ventures, Intel Capital and Shenzhen Ventures.
Nofi Nano is a startup that continues attention. Founded in early 2012, the company was founded by Dr. Pan Kefei and Dr. Jiang Wei, mainly engaged in research, development, production and application of nano silver materials. Nofi Nano has made product iterations with nano silver wire transparent conductive film products and solutions as its product direction.
According to the information provided by Nofi Nano, Nofi Nano has shipped a total of 1 million square meters, ranking first in the global nano silver conductive film. At the same time, the company has applied for more than 70 patents and has 36 authorized cores. Among the invention patents, 11 of them are US-approved invention patents, and are the only ones in China that have complete independent intellectual property rights of nano-silver conductive films.
So before in the winning Intel, Northern Lights Investment, “Nofia Nano Technology” to be nano silver Wire conductive film is used in large-size touch screens, and the nano silver wire developed by Nofi Nano is coated with a nano silver ink material on a plastic or glass substrate. Then, using a laser or yellow light engraving technique to describe a transparent conductive film having a nano-scale silver wire conductive network pattern; the nano-silver wire has a line width of about 20 nm, and there is no Murray interference.The problem can therefore be applied to display screens of various sizes; compared to the conventional transparent conductive film deposited on a hard material substrate such as ITO, the performance in terms of light transmittance, conductivity, etc. is better; The metal mesh film has a smaller bending radius and a smaller rate of change in resistance when bent, which is advantageous in the application of the curved display device.
Founder Dr. Pan Kefei said that in the previous iterations of the product, the most troublesome issue was the interlacing of various problems. Such as the preparation of silver line ink formula, improvement of coating process, breakthrough of wire diameter and length of nano silver material, balance between square resistance and haze, improvement of light reliability, prevention of silver migration, etc. At that time, the entire industry faced technical pain points. In response to the above problems, Nofi Nano has developed from front-end research and development of materials to back-end process improvement to touch-screen application design. Each process is independently oriented and quantitatively analyzed to solve R&D and process problems one by one.
The whole process of nano-silver from material to conductive film needs to undergo a series of steps such as silver wire synthesis and purification, ink configuration, conductive film coating, etc., and behind the whole process is the cooperation and support of the upstream and downstream industry chain. Nofi Nano said that from the upstream chemical raw materials, to the synthesis of mid-stream silver ink ink, to the downstream touch screen application design, the company has completed the domestic and international substrate supply, OCA and conductive silver paste matching, IC solution perfection The construction and improvement of the entire supply chain and application chain, including maturity.
Commercialization, Nofi Nano first focused on the application of the touch screen, and has begun to expand the flexible screen market, flexible cover solution market. Founder Dr. Pan Kefei said that in the past three years, Nofi Nano will focus on more and more application scenarios such as large and medium-sized touch screens, folding screens, and car-mounted flexible touch.
The touch screen has always been the core of the design revolution of smart electronic products. The materials used in the touch screen were mainly ITO.However, the film has a brittle texture, high resistance and easy breakage, and is difficult to apply on a large-sized touch screen or a flexible screen. Compared with the metal grid transparent conductive film, the nano silver wire transparent conductive film not only has better bending property, but also has no moire interference fringes, a display screen adapted to various resolutions, no expensive yellow mask, and proofing. Flexibility and other advantages; relatively new carbon-based transparent conductive materials, nano silver wire has the advantages of high technology maturity and better upstream and downstream industrial chain. In terms of material and process compatibility, nano silver wire is the most excellent conductive film material in the industry.
After the rigid screen, the folding screen has gradually become one of the effective solutions for optimizing the interactive experience of the screen. Since the beginning of this year, Huawei, Samsung, and Xiaomi have successively launched flexible screen products and samples, and the attention paid to flexible screens in the market has also risen. According to IHS data, global foldable OLED panel shipments will reach 1.4 million in 2019, and will increase to 50.5 million in 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 81.77%. Compared with other conductive film products, the nano silver wire can achieve higher transmittance due to the smaller line width. At the same time, the nano silver wire conductive film has a small bending radius, and the resistance change rate is small when bending, and can complete at least 100,000 times of bending, and is more advantageous in flexible display devices such as smart phones and bracelets. With the superiority of materials and the increase in market demand, Nofi Nano’s homeopathic flexible screens are incorporated into the product system. The company said that it has launched in-depth cooperation with downstream mobile phone manufacturers on flexible screens.
In addition to the flexible screen, the flexible cover solution is another important layout of Nofi Nano in the field of flexibility. At the beginning of 2019, Nofi Nano successfully developed the “colorless transparent PI + hard coated flexible cover solution”, which has entered the small trial stage.
Nofi Nano said that the company’s customer system already includes a number of well-known brand companies, such as Intel, HP, Amazon, Vision, Honghe, Zoom, etc., and has launched in-depth strategic cooperation, cooperation products have been corresponding Enter different market segments such as smart business development, smart education, smart medical care, and smart home.
It is noteworthy that the Novo Nano’s leading investment country venture capital fund is a “Guo Zihao” venture capital fund approved by the State Council. Shenzhen Zhongxiaodan Group and Shenzhen Gaoxintou Group are jointly owned by Shenzhen SASAC. State-owned financial group. Li Lisheng, Managing Director of Guofeng Investment Fund, said: “The new materials industry is the cornerstone of China’s strategic emerging industry development, and nanomaterials are China’s key development in new materials.One of the directions. As a leading company in the field of nano silver wire in China, Nofi Nano has reached the international leading level and is expected to become one of the representative enterprises of Chinese enterprises in the global touch materials field.