Versarien Share Discussion Threads

[redchef] 04/4/2017 07:18

Yet another mention for Graphene on BBC Breakfast this morning. Two consecutive days for unrelated stories. Someone is executing a very cleverly planned marketing campaign IMHO :)

[theklf] 04/4/2017 07:15

These Australian companies / Universities have some sort of 'technology readiness level' scales which seems a useful idea for scaling where all these different projects are in the actual development commercialisation process



The new wastewater filtration products will use graphene oxide with the aim to dramatically improve performance and reduce current energy use.
The research and development team behind the project recently won funding through the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program and aim to deliver working products in the next two to three years.
The aim is to use the CRC-P funding to support the delivery of low energy, continuous flow processes for the water and wastewater treatment market.
Hailed as a wonder-material, graphene is a lattice of carbon atoms so thin it’s considered to be two-dimensional, providing incredible performance characteristics and range of potential applications.
Lead researcher Associate Professor Mainak Majumder from Monash University and his team perfected a technique in 2016 that could create graphene filters on an industrial scale.
“Graphene has special properties which could disrupt current commercial filtration techniques and significantly reduce the energy required to filter wastewater,” he said.
Peter Voigt, executive director at Clean TeQ, said: “We plan to be the first to take this breakthrough technology to market in Australia and in developing countries such as China, India, South America and South Africa, where access to clean freshwater is a significant issue.”

[theklf] 04/4/2017 06:57

Note also this project from existing membrane maker

Graphene based deionization on board the EU Flagship
The billion-euro Graphene Flagship project of the European Commission doubled in size this June. The expansion brought Spain to the second place by the number of Flagship partners, just below Germany and Italy which share the first place as countries with most project participants. Among the freshly accepted projects is GRAPHESALT, “Graphene based capacitive deionization for an energy efficient desalination system”. GRAPHESALT was proposed by the Spanish research organization Tecnalia and the French membrane maker SME Polymem.

GRAPHESALT is one of 21 projects selected from a total of 218 proposals submitted. It focuses on the development of a water desalination system based on a technique called capacitive deionization (CDI).

[superg1] 04/4/2017 06:57

The KLF

If you check the old paper it was working at 100 bar and water going through in metres per second. Obviously 4/5 years on they have taken it a step further.

It is seen as as a very big opportunity for graphene to transform the desalination market.

[superg1] 04/4/2017 06:32

I tried to get the report but it's £99.

With a bit of digging mourned here is the original report/news on the topic.

[superg1] 04/4/2017 06:24

Yes Shavian it seems to be very popular. It's a big topic in the Goldman sacks report.

Now I'm wondering whose GNPs they used at the UOM considering their close link with Versarien and as shareholders.

I did note this bit too

He told BBC News: "As an ink or solution, we can compose it on a substrate or porous material. Then we can use it as a membrane."

VRS do produce and sell graphene oxide (GO)

[shavian] 04/4/2017 06:03

NGI's progress with a graphene membrane for water filtration and desalination,as posted on the thread yesterday, now seems to have caught the headlines. As I write (0530) It is now the top trending item on the BBC website, and has just been mentioned both on the World Service news and Wake up to Money on Five Live.

Edit at 0603: this is just being explained on the Today programme's headlines by BBC correspondent Paul Rincon. UoM being credited for the development, but the reporter says that "further development will be required before the invention 'leaps out of the lab' into commercial use".

Go for it Neill!

[shavian] 03/4/2017 20:51

I much prefer the Beeb's version to that of the Daily Wail:



Dr Devanthan reckons that more work is needed to learn how to produce GO particles at low cost in order to exploit graphene technologies for desalination. Have we got news for him!

This would seem to be yet another wonderful area for VRS to help to save the world

[superg1] 03/4/2017 19:37

I see that's on the BBC site too today.

At the show I did mention to some that Lockheed Martin are very interested in such technology.

I only say such things if there is something to back it up. They are a partner of the NGI and now the topic is recent news note the below.

[fatherjack2] 03/4/2017 18:29

hxxps://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/04/graphene-sieve-used-to-filter-seawater-and-create-drinkable-water/

[fatherjack2] 03/4/2017 18:09

An interesting read

[superg1] 03/4/2017 13:16

Mike

The CEO did say he had no idea what the Dragons den bit involved only that it may be like the normal Dragons den (which is a fair assumption) a quick pitch just to the 'dragons' and then some questions. Not 1 minute in front of 500.

On that basis there was no preparation at all and in one minute there isn't a lot that can be said.

I understand one started with. I said the share price would double last year and it will double again this year.

Which idiot was that any idea, I'd love to know it sounds like a hype CEO. What a stupid way to start a pitch imo.

I fancy having a trawl through their business whatever it is.

[spike_1] 03/4/2017 12:33

1savvy - thanks for that - yes suspected that was yours almost on the bell - well done and good luck!

Best wishes - Mike

[astralvision] 03/4/2017 12:21

Fascinating link, thank you.

[superg1] 03/4/2017 12:15

Graphene is the answer

Only a 3000% increase on a solar breakthrough.

[superg1] 03/4/2017 11:20

Took that lot off as I found a way to info now so can be more clear instead of guessing, but it will take time to read and digest.

[1savvyinvestor] 03/4/2017 10:46

21.8p so showing as a sell!

[spike_1] 03/4/2017 09:26

1savvy - how much did you have to pay - if I may ask.
Best wishes - Mike

[1savvyinvestor] 03/4/2017 09:07

Just bought 35,000 shares. Was at the investor show and was impressed. Would have preferred the primary bid price of 16p but hey!!

[superg1] 03/4/2017 08:46

SN

If you think the Investor show lot read here then the vast majority have never heard of ADVFN, I did ask.

I did tell them not to bother as Imo it's a shocking site where the company applauds the chaos called by trolls as it adds to the ad click revenue. ADVFN have 100's of 1000's of false registers users created by them so they can make big claims about how many registered users they have.

BTW

Your details will have been registered on the US version to show you as a registered user there but they won't have told you that, all of us have been registered US side but I never use the site.

In the fullness of time if some have their way ADVFN will go bust and a good day that will be.

That's why I pay monthly.

It just happens to be the best BB format but the worst for regulating it.

I've been meaning to review other sites and I was talking to the site owners the other day and I'll check what their forum options are, they are new.

I'd happily abandon ADVFN and take my level 2 payments elsewhere. Its just that no one has come up with a decent alternative option to date.

Some at the show know the fund managers already in or one or two they think should be in going by the ones they know that are. So they will be chatting to them not reading here.