Sustainable materials · Graphene electronics

Growing the materials of tomorrow

Sustainable materials and advanced electronics — with Sukshma, our graphene semiconductor subsidiary. Designed, developed and made in Bharat.

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Who we are

We work where biology and advanced materials meet — growing sustainable alternatives to carbon-intensive materials, and building the graphene devices that will power the next computing era.

Mycelium filaments colonising an agri-residue substrate
2Platforms: bio-materials and graphene electronics
HYDHyderabad R&D centre and pilot manufacturing
INIndia — end-to-end design, development and production
The composite materials platform

One organism, tuned into distinct industrial products

One biological growth process, reinforced with graphene oxide. Feedstock is renewable, the process is low-energy, and the products are engineered to outperform the incumbents they replace.

01

Grow

Mycelium cultivated on agri-residue feedstock.

02

Reinforce

Graphene-oxide loading for strength and fire resistance.

03

Form

Moulded, pressed and finished to spec.

04

Deploy

Fashion, packaging, logistics, construction, sensing.

Sustainable product portfolio

Grown, not extracted

Mycelium and graphene-oxide composites for leather, packaging, pallets, construction and energy storage.

Sheet of tan mycelium bio-leather
Fashion · Automotive

Bio-leather

Animal-free, low-water leather alternative for fashion, footwear and automotive interiors.

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Packaging

Bio-packaging

Grown protective packaging replacing expanded polystyrene; compostable at end of life.

Stack of dark mycelium composite pallets in a warehouse
Logistics

Fire-resistant pallets

Graphene-oxide reinforced pallets combining load strength with fire resistance.

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Construction

Construction materials

Insulation panels and acoustic boards for low-carbon building envelopes.

Energy

Graphene batteries

Graphene electrodes for faster charging, longer cycle life and safer thermal behaviour.

Flexible sensor patch with printed gold circuitry on a composite substrate
Sensing

Multimodal sensors

Composite sensing platform for temperature, humidity, heavy metals and gas-leak detection.

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Industrial supply

Composite feedstock

Engineered mycelium and graphene-oxide blends supplied to industrial partners.

Why it matters

Chrome-tanned leather, expanded polystyrene, treated timber, chemically bonded panels — the materials we replace carry heavy carbon, water and waste burdens, and most are difficult or impossible to recycle.

01Renewable agri-residue inputs instead of petrochemicals
02Low-temperature growth process with modest energy demand
03Compostable or recoverable at end of life
04Performance parity or better — fire, load and durability
05Localised supply chains that shorten logistics
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Sukshma — from layers to logic

Sukshma works in the regime where graphene stops behaving like a bulk material and starts behaving like a designable electronic system — one to five atomic layers, with stacking order as a design variable.

Hexagonal carbon lattice of a graphene sheet

CVD graphene

Wafer-scale monolayer and few-layer films grown by chemical vapour deposition, transferred onto device substrates.

Multilateral graphene

Stacking-order control across few-layer films, engineering electronic behaviour that single-layer graphene does not exhibit.

Heterostructures

Graphene stacked with dielectrics and 2D partners to engineer bandgap, mobility and coupling.

Device roadmap
01

Memory devices

Non-volatile graphene memory targeting high density, low switching energy and strong retention.

02

Superconducting qubits

Graphene-based Josephson elements for gate-tunable qubits and quantum computing research hardware.

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03

THz devices

Terahertz detectors, modulators and emitters exploiting graphene's ultrafast carrier response.

04

Sensors & interconnects

High-sensitivity sensing and low-resistance interconnect layers for advanced packaging.

Research-stage today, with device demonstrators sequenced ahead of pilot production.

Made in Bharat

R&D in Hyderabad

Our Hyderabad centre brings biology labs, materials characterisation and device fabrication under one roof — so a composite formulation and a graphene device stack can be developed, tested and scaled in the same place.

Patterned semiconductor wafer on a fabrication stage
01Mycelium cultivation and composite pilot lines
02Graphene synthesis, transfer and characterisation
03Device fabrication and cryogenic measurement
04Product testing to industrial and safety standards
05Partnerships with Indian institutes and industry
The road ahead
Near term

Scale bio-packaging and bio-leather pilot lines; qualify fire-resistant pallets with logistics partners.

Mid term

Commercial construction materials and graphene battery cells; first Sukshma memory demonstrators.

Long term

Volume manufacturing across the materials portfolio; quantum and terahertz devices moving from lab to product.

Somalore builds the materials. Sukshma builds the devices. Together they make an Indian deep-tech platform that spans the molecule and the chip.