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Ionic Industries is an Australia-based graphene developer that was spun-off from Strategic Energy Resources (SER still holds 20% in Ionic) in 2015. Ionic Developed a proprietary Graphene Oxide production process and is developing GO-based materials and applications.

Simon Savage, Ionic's Managing Director, was kind enough to discuss the company's technology and the status of Ionic's GO applications.

The Graphene-Info team spent the last 2 weeks in China, on a trip that included participation in the Printed & Flexible Electronics China 2017 conference, some OLED-related meetings, and a fascinating 2-day visit to the Wuxi Graphene Center.

The Chinese graphene market is somewhat shrouded in mystery, as many specifics remain unknown. We set out to find out more exact details on this interesting graphene industry, and came back quite impressed.

We're happy to announce a new market report, Graphene Oxide Market Report. This report, brought to you by the world's leading graphene experts, is a comprehensive guide to the graphene oxide market. Graphene Oxide is an exciting material with promising applications in diverse areas - including energy storage, composite materials, bio-medical, water treatment and more. Graphene Oxide can also be reduced to make conductive graphene flakes (r-GO).

Reading this report, you'll learn all about:

• The difference between graphene oxide and graphene
• Graphene oxide properties
• Possible applications for graphene oxide
• Reduction of graphene oxide to r-GO
• Available materials on the market

The report also provides:

• A list of prominent GO research activities
• A list of all graphene oxide developers and their products
• Sample graphene oxide implementations
• Datasheets for over 20 different GO materials
• Free updates for a year

The Graphene-Info team would like to wish all of its readers a very happy new year! 2016 has been a busy year for graphene, as the market is shifting from R&D to graphene implementation and commercialization. Here are 2016's top 10 graphene applications, ranked by the number of posts written about them:

1. Graphene composites
2. Graphene sensors
3. Medicine
4. Graphene batteries
5. Electronics
6. Graphene supercapacitors
7. Graphene coating
8. Displays
9. Graphene inks
10. Solar energy

Last year, electronics was the most-mentioned topic, but now in 2016 the the most mentioned topic was composites and then sensors. This is another sign that the attention is shifting towards areas in which commercialization is already underway.

2016 will soon be over - and it was an eventful year for the graphene industry. While we see more graphene-based products continue to enter the market, including some graphene-enhanced sensors and energy related applications, it seems that on the whole the market is now waiting for graphene to prove its potential.

Here are the top 10 stories posted on Graphene-Info in 2016, ranked by popularity (i.e. how many people read the story):

• Graphenano and Grabat launch graphene-based batteries (Feb 8)
• Dongxu unveils an impressive graphene-enhanced battery (Jul 10)
• IDtechEx predicts that the graphene market will reach nearly $220 million by 2026 (Mar 14)
• Graphene-enhanced film shuts down li-ion batteries before overheating and restarts upon cooling (Jan 12)
• Xefro's graphene-based heating system image under trials, ECL to supply the electronics (Feb 10)
• Graphene Security unveils graphene-based RFID tags at MWC 2016 (Mar 2)
• Graphene-enhanced solar cells use rain to produce electricity (Apr 7)
• Deloitte & Touche sees a bright future for graphene, but it might take a while... (Jan 19)
• Graphene impressions from the Mobile World Summit (Feb 29)
• Graphene composite may help keep aircraft wings ice-free (Jan 26)

2016 will soon come to an end, and we are getting ready to summarize this exciting year in the graphene industry. One year ago we posted the top top graphene stories in 2015, and you can see the list below again. Interestingly, the most popular stories in 2015 were about graphene's potential for energy storage - mainly supercapacitors and batteries.

1. Sunvault Energy and Edison Power present a 10,000 Farad graphene supercapacitor
2. Sunvault's graphene-based supercapacitor declared to someday replace Lithium-ion batteries and compete with Tesla's battery aspirations
3. Stanford scientists make graphene-aluminum battery that charges quickly and lasts over 7,000 cycles
4. Graphene 3D Lab starts selling conductive graphene filament for 3D printing
5. Will Tesla's Roadster 3.0 use a graphene-enhanced battery?
6. Berkeley scientists design graphene-based loudspeakers and microphones
7. World's first commercial graphene-based supercapacitor chosen for use in spacecraft
8. IDTechEx's analyst explains his views on the graphene market
9. Scientists design a large-scale roll-to-roll graphene manufacturing process
10. Graphene-enhanced guitar shown at Graphene Live!

Below you can see 2015's top 10 graphene applications, ranked by the number of posts written about them. Back then we were a bit surprised to see graphene sensors at #2 - but recently companies have actually started to commercialize graphene sensors (see here and here) and this is a very promising field.

San Diego-based Nanomedical Diagnostics, established in late 2013 to develop cutting-edge diagnostics equipment, recently started shipping its graphene-based sensors and the AGILE R100 system which allows for real-time detection of small molecules - with no lower size limit. Nanomedical's graphene-based sensors enable faster sample processing, greater accuracy, portability and cost savings.

The company's CEO, Ross Bundy, was kind enough to explain the company's technology and business to us.

A few weeks ago we visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, UK. We were given a tour of the facilities, the graphene labs and met with several key researchers and the business development team. The NPL is the UK's national measurement institute, and is a world-leading measurement standards institute - and certainly one of the leading institutes in the field of graphene metrology.

The NPL's facilities are very impressive, it's a beautiful campus set in the lovely town of Teddington - about half an hour by train from central London. The research facilities and laboratories were very well equipped and we pleasantly surprised to find out how nice and hospitable the researchers were. It was great to see so many graphene related activities at the NPL.

We are glad to announce that we reached 2,500 followers to our twitter account! We promise to continue sharing graphene news from around the world.

Our Twitter account is a great way to follow the graphene industry and stay updated on our graphene news and commentary. You can also follow us through Facebook, LinkedIn, our free monthly newsletter (that has over 11,000 subscribers) and our RSS feed.

A couple of weeks ago we visited Haydale's headquarters and production floor in Ammanford, Wales, UK. Here are our impressions following this visit, the meeting with Haydale's management and a visit to the production floor and processing rooms.

First of all, let's clear up a common misunderstanding: Haydale is not a graphene producer. It buys graphene materials (from several sources) and uses its proprietary plasma process to improve the materials, make them more uniform in quality and tailor them to specific requirements. Haydale then uses these materials to create intermediate materials - inks, coatings, composite materials (and masterbatches) and 3D filaments. Haydale is working with customers to take these materials and use them in various graphene-enhanced products.