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Lomiko Metals, the Research Foundation of Stony Brook University (SBU) and Graphene Labs have signed an agreement to investigate novel, energy-focused graphene applications. The three collaborators will mainly focus on super capacitors and batteries.

Graphene Laboratories recently signed a two-year strategic alliance agreement with Canada's Lomiko Metals, the owner of several resource properties containing high-grade graphite. Today Lomiko announced that it has prepared a variety of high to ultra pure carbon flake graphite samples that will be tested by Graphene Labs.

Those graphite samples were provided from the Quatre Milles Project. The main goal of the testing will be to develop a feasible procedure for the purification of flake graphite for use in graphene production.

Graphene Laboratories recently signed a two-year strategic alliance agreement with Canada's Lomiko Metals, the owner of several resource properties containing high-grade graphite. Graphite Investor News posted an interesting interview with Lomiko Metals' CEO, A. Paul Gill.

Mr. Gill says that he sees a "huge market" for graphene, as billions of dollars have already been spent on research and development. Gill says that Graphene Labs alone have sold graphene products to over 4,000 customers, including Ford, Sony, Samsung, LG, the US Army and NASA.

Graphene Laboratories have signed a two-year strategic alliance agreement with Canada's Lomiko Metals which owns several resource properties containing high-grade graphite. The two companies will co-develop a vertically integrated supply chain that includes a secure supply of high-quality graphite, cost-effective and scalable processing, tight quality control and integration of graphene-based products in end-user products.

As part of the agreement, Lomiko will provide mineral samples from the Quatre Milles Project, which will be used to test natural graphite to graphene conversion. Graphene labs will develop the graphite purification process.

Graphene Laboratories is expanding their product line, and now they offer new 2D graphene-like materials. The new materials include liquid suspensions of atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), tungsten disulfide (WS2) both transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD’s) and boron nitride (BN).

The new materials are available at Graphene Lab's online store.

AzoNano posted an interesting interview with Graphene Lab's Dr. Elena Polyakova. Elena discusses Graphene and its applications, and the business of Graphene Labs and Graphene Supermarket (their online graphene product store).

Elena says that their most popular product is 3D graphene foam. Graphene foams have a high surface area and porosity, making them ideal for energy-related applications. They also sell a lot of graphene on dielectric substrates, which are ideal for photovoltaic applications and graphene transistors.

Graphene Laboratories is growing quickly - and the company has expanded its production facilities and staff. The company has added additional space in the Stony Brook Incubator in Calverton, New York, with the space being used to host a new Chemical Vapor Deposition furnace for graphene growth. The staff has grown to over 10 employees (including four interns).

Graphene Labs told us that their highest selling products are silicon dioxide wafers with graphene sheets on them and graphene coatings (for applications such as ITO replacement and in electronic components). Another popular product is the company's 3D graphene foam materials, which because of their high surface area have potential applications in chemical sensing and energy storage.

The following article was sent to us by Corey McCarren and Dr. Elena Polyakova from Graphene Laboratories (a Graphene-Info sponsor), discussing Graphene Oxide and its applications:

Graphene, a multi or single layer sheet of graphite, is considered a key material in producing the next generation of low-cost carbon-based transparent and flexible electronics. Graphene is the strongest material available, as well as being highly transparent, flexible, and the best conductor of heat and electricity. Great effort is devoted to developing an effective yet inexpensive way to produce graphene materials in industrial quantities.

Graphene Supermarket announced that they have expanded their product line and reduced the prices of many current graphene products. They are now offering highly concentrated graphene oxide at the lowest price per gram. The company also added two high-surface area materials, Reduced Graphene Oxide and ultrafine Graphene Nanoplatelets.

Graphene Supermarket is operated by Graphene Laboratories and is a sponsor of Graphene-Info.

The following article was sent to us by Corey McCarren and Elena Polyakova from Graphene Laboratories, discussing carbon nanotubes commercialization woes, and how it relates to Graphene:

After the Nobel Prize was awarded for the research of graphene in October 2010, the material has occupied the headlines of all technology-related media. Graphene is already positioned as the next big thing for many technologies, such as computers, displays, biosensors, and flexible electronics, to name a few. It might be the right time to look back to 2001 when carbon nanotubes (closed rolls of graphene) were the darlings of the day, and headlines were full of promises of their bright future. Today, in 2011, most of these expectations were not realized.