Graphene Laboratories - Page 5

A few months ago, Graphene Labs and Lomiko Metals launched a new company called Graphene 3D Lab that focuses on the development of high-performance graphene-enhanced materials for 3D Printing. Lomiko Metals announced a few days ago that Graphene 3D Lab is going to perform a reverse-merger with Matnic Resources, a public company that trades on the Canadian TSX Venture Exchange (ticker: MIK.V).

When the reverse merge is final, Graphene 3D Lab will own 60% of the new company, while the rest of the 40% will be owned by other funders. Lomiko Metals will invest $300,000 to keep its 15% stake in Graphene 3D Lab. Effectively, this means that Graphene 3D Lab will soon become a public company.

Graphene Laboratories and HayDale signed a non-exclusive agreement that brings HayDale's HDPlas range of graphene materials to Graphene Lab's Graphene Supermarket web site.

HayDale's materials will be marketed by Graphene labs in the US, Canada and Russia. This agreement marks Haydale’s intent in increasing its presence in the US R&D market.

Two months ago, Graphene Labs and Lomiko Metals launched a new company called Graphene 3D Labs that focuses on the development of high-performance graphene-enhanced materials for 3D Printing. Now we hear that Graphene 3D Lab filed a provisional patent application for the use of graphene-enhanced material, along with other materials, in 3D printing. This will enable the 3D printing of electronics devices - such as electronic circuits, sensors, or batteries.

The company's CEO, Daniel Stolyarov, says that they use Lomiko's high-quality graphene as the base material for producing graphene nanoplatelets, due to their cost and consistency in quality. The company says that adding graphene to polymers which are conventionally used in 3D printing improves the properties of the polymer in many different ways; it improves the polymers mechanical strength as well as its electrical and thermal conductivity.

Back in May, Lomiko Metals, Stony Brook University (SBU) and Graphene Labs signed an agreement to investigate graphene based applications - mainly supercapacitors and batteries. Today the companies announced that they have reached a significant milestone by receiving a prototype graphene supercapacitor and a report from Stony Brook University and New York State’s Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (Sensor CAT).

The supercapacitor prototype was made using graphene composite material prepared using a proprietary technology developed at Graphene Labs. The measured specific capacitance of the prototype was found to be around 500 Farad per gram of the material. This value is comparable with the best values reported in the literature for a supercapacitor of this type.

Graphene Labs launched a new company called Graphene 3D Labs that will focus on the development of high-performance graphene-enhanced materials for 3D Printing. Lomiko Metals will be the exclusive graphite provider to the new company, and they will also invest $50,000.

This is not the first project to develop such technology. Just last month we reported that American Graphite Technologies (AGT) launched a research project in collaboration with Ukraine's Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology that will develop graphene-based working materials for 3D printing.

Back in May, Lomiko Metals, Stony Brook University (SBU) and Graphene Labs signed an agreement to investigate graphene based applications - mainly supercapacitors and batteries. Here's Lomiko Metals' CEO, Paul Gill explaining the company's graphite and graphene developments, especially regarding this project:

Graphene Labs recently managed to turn Lomiko Metals' graphite into Graphene Oxide, and then turn that GO into reduced-GO (r-GO). The supercapacitor research at SBU will be based on this r-GO material.

Thermene launched a new product based on graphene - the Thermene Graphene Thermal Paste is based on graphene-oxide flakes and is aimed towards CPU cooling. The company just started selling this new product a few days ago. For $20 you can buy 3 ml of Thermene which should be enough for about a dozen CPUs.

Thermene is easy to use - it comes with a simple paint brush and you simply apply it to your CPU surface. The material takes 10 hours to cure.

Graphen Laboratories has become Moorfield's exclusive US distributer for their nanoCVD systems. Those new systems (launched in Europe in early 2013) enable easy, R&D scale production of CVD graphene and carbon nanotubes on a variety of substrates. The systems will be distributed by Graphene Laboratories via Graphene Supermarket.

The nanoCVD range consists of compact yet powerful units which include features such as low thermal mass heater stages, cold-walled reaction chambers and fully automatic controls enable rapid synthesis. The primary focus of these systems is in the academic sector, but Moorfield says that the nanoCVD systems have also proven attractive for industrial product development.

Check out this nice interview with Paul Gill, President & CEO of Lomiko Metals in which he explains how he first heard and got in touch with Graphene Labs via twitter and the logic behind their strategic alliance announced in February:

Paul also mentions super-capacitor related research, and from what I understand that will be the focus of Lumiko Metal's new R&D team.

Earlier in 2013, Lomiko Metals and Graphene Labs signed a strategic alliance agreement, and the companies has been collaborating since. Now Lomiko Metals announced it is establishing an R&D unit to oversee and coordinate the research activities on conversion of graphite into graphene.

Lomiko Metals contracted Graphene Labs' founders Dr. Elena Polyakova and Dr. Daniel Stolyarov to create the new department.