01 JULY 2020
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Overwhelming European demand sees Australia's battery anode company Talga Resources plan for expanded output at its new Swedish battery anode factory. Expressions of interest received for Talga's lithium-ion battery anode products exceed 300% of planned annual capacity of the Vittangi Anode Project, the company says.


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There are many forms of graphene, from CVD monolayer film to multilayer exfoliated graphene nano platelets to graphene oxides. Each different form of graphene has certain attributes which make them better suited for a given set of applications.

In this webinar we will take a closer look at Graphene Oxide (GO) and reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) materials to better understand their unique characteristics and the specific applications for which they are best suited.

We will hear from several leading graphene producers to learn about current commercial GO materials and the applications where they are being used.



Graphene is an incredibly versatile nano-material that is able to be incorporated into a wide range of host materials, resins and solvents. Achieving a successful dispersion of graphene into a host material is an essential step to obtaining an effective end-application or engineered material or product. 

Even the best graphene material in the world will fail if it is not dispersed correctly. This webinar will cover the sequence of issues and challenges that must be addressed in order to achieve a successful graphene dispersion. 

Hosted by The Graphene Council and presented by industry experts: Dr. Adrian Potts - CEO of Applied Graphene Materials, Paul Rettinger and Dr. Santosh Yadav of Chromaflo Technologies.

TOUR SCORES PRESTIGIOUS CENTENARY PRIZE  (The Graphene Council)
Rice University chemist James Tour has won a Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize. The award, given annually to up to three scientists from outside Great Britain, recognizes researchers for their contributions to the chemical sciences industry or education and for successful collaborations. Tour was named for innovations in materials chemistry with applications in medicine and nanotechnology.

Gridtential Energy, the inventor and developer of Silicon Joule bipolar battery technology and LOLC Advanced Technologies, the research and advanced technology arm of LOLC Group announce that they have entered into a technology evaluation agreement.

The versatility of the Vortex Fluidic Device (VFD), a device that famously unboiled an egg, continues to impress, with the innovative green chemistry device created at Flinders University having more than 100 applications including the creation of a new non-toxic fluorescent dye that detects bacteria harmful to humans.

In July 2019, we announced that Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) officially launched the all-new Mono R a higher-performance, lighter and more advanced new generation of the iconic Mono. In a recent discussion with Neill Briggs, Co-Founder and Director of Product Development, he confirmed to The Graphene Council that the first customer 
RECENT RESEARCH

Graphene's unique 2D structure means that electrons travel through it differently to most other materials. One consequence of this unique transport is that applying a voltage to them doesn't stop the electrons like it does in most other materials.

Researchers dipped their new, printed sensors into tuna broth and watched the readings. It turned out the sensors printed with high-resolution aerosol jet printers on a flexible polymer film and tuned to test for histamine, an allergen and indicator of spoiled fish and meat can detect histamine down to 3.41 parts per million.


New research shows that graphene field effect transistors can be used to selectively detect ions in a liquid solution. The work, just published in Nature Communications, paves the way to applications such as genome sequencing, medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control.
A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has demonstrated a powerful new technique that uses light to measure how electrons move and interact within materials.

Scientists from the Center for Photonics and 2D Materials of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the University of Oviedo, Donostia International Physics Center, and CIC nanoGUNE have proposed a new way to study the properties of individual organic molecules and nanolayers of molecules. The approach, described in Nanophotonics, relies on V-shaped graphene-metal film structures.

The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a nanotechnology revolution. In recent years, researchers from Brown University and elsewhere have shown that boron, carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, can make interesting nanostructures too

An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel material that could enable major leaps in the miniaturization of electronic devices. Published in the prestigious journal Nature, this study represent a significant achievement for future electronics.

A new lithium-based electrolyte invented by Stanford University scientists could pave the way for the next generation of battery-powered electric vehicles. In a study published June 22 in Nature Energy, Stanford researchers demonstrate how their novel electrolyte design boosts the performance of lithium metal batteries
PATENT FILINGS

Alexandria, June 27 -- Sandisk Technologies Llc has submitted a patent application for three-dimensional memory device with a graphene channel and methods of making the same. Rabkin Peter and Higashitani Masaaki developed the invention.



Geneva, June 22 -- Lockheed Martin Corporation has filed a patent application for modified track-etched substrates for composite graphene membranes. This invention was developed by Heise Scott E, Liu Han, Swett Jacob Louis and Hiltabidle Michael J.

Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Dr. Andre Geim and Dr. Konstantin Novoselov for which they received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.
The Graphene Council was formed in 2013 and is the largest community in the world for graphene scientists, researchers, producers, end users and application developers.