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[superg1] 17/7/2018 14:08

It looks like about 250k of buying broken up.

[smokeyjohnson] 17/7/2018 14:06

Some nice big-ish buys just showing up.

[superg1] 17/7/2018 14:06

Some big buying there which has finally shifted singer off the offer.

Singer as I have said many times are the MM to watch if it seems we have a supply.

[turbocharge] 17/7/2018 14:06

Spike, thanks for that interlude into my reveries and meditation on exploring the concept of what is 'beyond excellent'.

I have been brought back to earth :)

[festario] 17/7/2018 14:05

I can't imagine 125p holding for long, with this barrage of buys hitting it.

[woodpeckers] 17/7/2018 14:05

But the same could apply to both ... :-)

[spike_1] 17/7/2018 14:02

er ... Turbo, actually Fest was describing the difficulty the MM's were having getting stock from people, i.e. he could sell 150K above the minimum price when the normal trade size is only 10K.

I.e. he was not talking about the future of the company - sorry.

[turbocharge] 17/7/2018 13:55

Festario: "The limits are beyond excellent"

In the realms of exceptionally superb, world-class, outstanding qualities, where only supremely exceptional limits can hope to reach?

[superg1] 17/7/2018 13:48

Well said Martin Kemp

"So we’re saying we don’t care what you call your black powder for instance – just tell us what’s in it.”

[superg1] 17/7/2018 13:46

Thanks Fest

In recent times there was someone bidding for 100k at 125p.

Just yesterday away from our eyes a single 300k went through.

[club sandwich] 17/7/2018 13:39

There's something big coming. I can feel it in my bones - in my bones, I tell ya!

[jointer13] 17/7/2018 13:37

"Kemp has also worked with the British Standards Institute on the British standardization of graphene to be launched next month, a brief 20 page document by and for industry that follows the more detailed International Standardization of graphene released in the autumn of 2017."


Business thrives on healthy competition, so when different suppliers offer apparently similar but incommensurable products it is not hard to imagine this having a negative impact on companies trying to work with the products and the industry as a whole. Such has been the case for graphene, until now. On Monday afternoon 16th July 2018, representatives from academia, industry and business gathered at the House of Commons in Westminster in the UK for the launch of the world’s first graphene characterization service, an initiative led by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester in the UK.
“This service will provide the missing link between academia and industry and will revolutionize how graphene is commercialized in years to come,” Graham Stuart, Minister for Investment told attendees, many of whom have had firsthand experience of the difficulties the lack of standardization in the industry causes and can see the service making a major step to commercially exploiting a material with properties so extraordinary, as Stuart put it “it sounds like something out of a Marvel comic”.
Reliably reproducing wonder properties
In fact as Ray Gibbs, CEO of Haydale pointed out, since 2010 when the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of graphene, industry started to evolve its own standards and definitions because there weren’t any. Set up in 2010 Haydale functionalizes commercial graphene for different dispersions and formats to serve a range of applications.
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Graphene meets the standard for industry
“We were shocked by the number of measurements that were variable and different because people were using very expensive equipment,” said Gibbs, as he explained that often the problem lay in lack of training for the people using the equipment. “Repeatability is crucial – if you can’t repeat it again no-one will make big ticket investment.”
Filling this gap, both NPL and the NGI share a wealth of expertise in the techniques needed to provide a reliable characterization and measurement service, an idea that has been five years in the making. NPL, a global pioneer in measurement technology will be able to offer robust measurements of the properties of commercially supplied graphene while the NGI can draw on their specialist research excellence in graphene to comment on how the measured properties match up for specific applications.
“The key thing is if you want to purchase a material you look at the data sheet and see what you want but for graphene the data sheets are all different so if you want to compare different suppliers you can’t,” Martin Kemp, consultant for graphene producer Versarien plc told Physics World. “So we’re saying we don’t care what you call your black powder for instance – just tell us what’s in it.” Kemp has also worked with the British Standards Institute on the British standardization of graphene to be launched next month, a brief 20 page document by and for industry that follows the more detailed International Standardization of graphene released in the autumn of 2017.

Products on display at the Graphene Service launch at the House of Commons, including high-performance trainers and a ligghtbulb
Hitting the market
Graphene has been used in commercial items before now but for a long time its inclusion has been more of a marketing exercise to attract attention rather than making use of its manifold fascinating properties. This is now starting to change making the service launch particularly timely. Examples of products on display at the launch that are making genuine use of graphene’s properties included trainers using graphene for mechanical and thermal management enhancement to improve their durability, as well as a lightbulb with a filament coated in graphene, again exploiting the material’s thermal conduction properties to give the filament greater efficiency and longevity.
Will it end with graphene? Quite likely no, as James Baxter points out, “We Launched the service for graphene but graphene is shorthand not just for graphene but a whole load of other materials.”

[spike_1] 17/7/2018 13:32

Thanks Fest - that's really very useful ;0)

[festario] 17/7/2018 13:28

The limits are beyond excellent.I can sell up to 150k shares in one go, at just above the advertised bid.

[lovat scout] 17/7/2018 13:22

I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk was already testing VRS products - what’s he got to lose?

[spike_1] 17/7/2018 13:20

MJ10: couldn't agree more! Musk is too much of a lose cannon, and Trump is like a baby with a tripod mounted machine gun.

[mj10] 17/7/2018 13:14

wouldn't want musk or trump anywhere near vrs

[anotherdrink] 17/7/2018 13:02

'but doesnt look like theres much of an opportunity for newbies on this share' - the observation could well be right over a 24 hr timescale for those looking for a quick % return. Thursday should embed just what the mid- long term opportunity VRS represents in this new graphene led industrial revolution.

[superg1] 17/7/2018 12:47

sonsonny

EM is well aware of VRS. NR has a mate called Musk at the family tree links them.

EM has plenty to get on with at the moment.

[sonsonnyjim] 17/7/2018 12:34

Generally think NR is on point on twitter but the EM stuff is a bit cringes given he never gets a response lol.

[pcjoe] 17/7/2018 12:25

Did he get a free submarine with that Tesla? - One going spare apparently - Jimmy Carr Style comeback to the obnoxious hero heckler comment - but maybe just a bit OTT..

[darkdogs] 17/7/2018 12:22

NR,s tweet to EM about his tesla 'amazed, not perfect but I can help you with that' lol

[superg1] 17/7/2018 12:21

run

The fund seller will run out at some point. Quite a bit gone this month I believe.