Graphene products news March 2015
Graphene phones
Moxi and Galapad have produced 30,000 mobile phones incorporating graphene in screens, batteries and thermal conductors. According to the companies graphene is utilized to make screens more sensitive and prolong battery life by up to 50 percent.The phones are priced at approximately $400, use the Android operating system and were built in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Talga to establish graphene demonstration plant
Australian graphite company Talga Resources will establish a world-first graphene demonstration plant in Thuringia, Germany. Production capacity will 100 to 200 tonnes per annum with production to begin end of 2015. The plant will demonstrate commercial scales of direct ore-to-graphene process suitable for industrial volumes for customer samples or sale.
According to Talga managing director Mark Thompson “The next stage of development will expand to a locked-cycle demonstration scale plant able to produce meaningful quantities of graphene and by-product graphite for larger customer samples and/or material graphene sales in 2015,” he said.
UK company to develop anti-corrosion coating graphene products
2-DTech, a spin-out of the University of Manchester, has secured an Innovate UK grant for £100,000 to finance a project with the long term goal of finding a way to improve anti-corrosive coatings through incorporation of graphene. “Coatings featuring graphene could be instrumental in preventing failure of critical electronics hardware and thermal management systems exposed to harsh operational conditions,” states Nigel Salter, 2-DTech’s Managing Director. “By adding a silicon dopant to graphene without disrupting its intra-domain crystalline structure, we are confident that it will be possible to fabricate coatings with far greater corrosion resistance – allowing these systems to exhibit a much higher degree of ruggedness and thus extend their working lifespan significantly.”
