Al Nakhla has a strong partnership with the MackGraphe, the graphene and nanomaterials research center at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. With activities started in 2013 with a start-up fund of approximately US$ 20.000,000.00, including the construction of a new building (opened on March 2nd, 2016 with the presence of Prof.Sir Andre Geim, Nobel prize in Physics in 2010) with 7 floors plus two underground floors and a class 1000 clean room with na approximate área of 200 m². Mackgraphe is a “brother” center of the centre for advanced 2D materials (CA2DM), at the National University of Singapore, working in a complementary manner.