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[squire007] 23/11/2018 09:00

What else is there !!!! Lol Maybe one other ;-)

[superg1] 23/11/2018 08:59

Owenga

As per other projects mentioned by VRS yes there are tests going on with Nanene in batteries too.

The button cell batteries were at Cambridge graphene centre on the investor day there. I established back then that they were graphene silicon batteries utilising the graphene ink.

So on this visit there was effectively a number of multiple button cells being tested via some kit and again they were graphene silicon and enabled by the Cambridge graphene ink.

WMG are also with Cambridge.

The words I picked up on were spearhead projects in batteries supercapacitors and solar power.

As you can see from posts Varta seem to be the battery company in the spearhead project.

Solar power appears to be Great solar as part of the consortium testing graphene ink in the perovskite solar panels.

To complicate it a bit. It was explained that the ink could be dried to obtain a dry graphene powder if needed and then using other tech separate that down to whatever layer level they needed.

[luckyorange] 23/11/2018 08:59

You will talk to anyone squire, so long as it's about golf or graphene 🤣

[squire007] 23/11/2018 08:55

Sat with bloke on Sydney flite, he was board level in concrete Australia biggest here :-) and yes they tested graphene mix ages ago :-0 !!! Told him VRS a level up what they had done so far .... :-) What a day to bump into him .. lol

[flatcoat1] 23/11/2018 08:52

SuperG did say seller would be out by December. And that was before the RNS in Monday which resulted in a lot more buys/sells

[festario] 23/11/2018 08:48

...Ferdy, especially if there is no determined seller!

[f3rdinand] 23/11/2018 08:44

300k worth of buys will cause a massive rise so let's hope so

[ellissj] 23/11/2018 08:38

Nice buys there. Blue now ! Best ellis

[festario] 23/11/2018 08:26

Nearly all sells thus far today. I can sell up to 30k at 124p, or 50k at 123p

[luckyorange] 23/11/2018 08:16

One thing has become obvious is that VRS has their fingers in so many battery pies now that if there is a breakthrough, however it comes, they will be in a strong position to capitalise upon it.

I was looking at Martins tweet regarding the visit

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It’s an amazing place with enough collective brain power to achieve pretty much anything. Somewhat in awe at it all if I’m honest.



Good job there is a business brain/team behind them looking over their shoulder ready to capitalise on their investment by bringing it out into the mainstream.

[spid81] 23/11/2018 08:14

Good morning Owenga,

the Concrete sales will be a while away, they are doing more testing with the UoM next year.


Graphene Sales are coming - they expect several tonnes to the mining industry and
are soon to announce a new application that could generate 5-10t in 2019

There is also a little more information in the Investor Presentation and more details of PureGRAPH5


Source Chairmans Address 2018 AGM (Today)

The best example of this is the dealings with newGen, that has used PureGRAPH™ to improve the quality of liners used in heavy mining equipment. These liners protect metal surfaces from abrasive wear and tear, most notably in the iron ore business for companies such as BHP, Fortescue and RIO. Currently, these liners have to be replaced every six months. Each time a piece of equipment such as a bucket reclaimer has to be shut down for relining, the downtime costs the mining companies significant loss of sales. They will be big winners if they can push out the time frame from six months to nine, or even 12 months. They would pay a premium to newGen for this ability. Everyone wins. It is all about efficiency of capital, made possible by adding PureGRAPH™. It is quite possible that sales of PureGRAPH™ in 2019, for this application, could be several tonnes. It would escalate rapidly from there with global sales of mill lining materials to the mining industry being in the order of US$1.2bn pa alone.

The newGen experience is just one example of what is happening across a number of product verticals. As each month goes by we look forward to reporting advancement and with it, increasing graphene sales. We are on the verge of being able to announce one new vertical that could generate demand of 5-10 tonnes of PureGRAPH in 2019, coinciding with an exciting product launch

[owenga] 23/11/2018 08:05

Superg. I notice that you are talking about graphene inks for use in batteries, which I had not picked up on before. Is that the case for all battery types being tested? So they don't use nanene in them?

[luckyorange] 23/11/2018 08:02

Concrete is a MacGuffin owenga, inconsequential lol, it's on the bucket list for some but no profit in those applications.

DCTA put out an environmental one this morning , I do hope it works it will make for a better world.

[squire007] 23/11/2018 07:58

Monday Club, NR dont like to give market notice !!! Lol ... timing ;-)

[owenga] 23/11/2018 07:55

Spid, so why isn't FGR selling their graphene by the bucket load? Sales in last quarter were AUD1000.

[superg1] 23/11/2018 07:52

Spearhead project batteries.

Note the Graphene Silicon combination and the mention of the battery coin cells. The coin cells we saw were graphene Silicon.

From a recent job ad for a position in the project at WMG

The Graphene Flagship is the EU’s largest research initiative with a budget of €1 billion, and has funded a project to develop silicon-graphene based anodes for batteries. This exciting project is a Spearhead research area directed by Varta Micro-Innovations, with several key EU partners, and is based within the Energy Innovation Centre at WMG, Warwick University.

The project focuses on developing anodes for Li-ion batteries and was devised in response to a continuum of growing energy needs with power and capacity. The goal is to develop a reliable technology for the pre-industrial production of Si/graphene based LIBs and will develop cell formats targeted towards wireless applications. This will span cell formats from coin to pouch size and will generate prototype cells to bring new competences to Li-ion manufacturing.

[ny boy] 23/11/2018 07:50

The Bulls need to get behind Neills red and white Nanene army and follow their imperious leader into China for global domination and not cowardly desert him selling out at 130p each time.

[luckyorange] 23/11/2018 07:47

Monday is the day for RNS's , everyone knows that 😲

[ellissj] 23/11/2018 07:44

Looks like dr. Stefano borini association with UoC goes back as far as 2014, working for nokia there. Best ellis


"Guest Lecture - Dr Stefano Borini"

We are delighted to host Dr Stefano Borini, Principal Researcher at Nokia Research Center (Cambridge UK Laboratory).

Date:11 Jun 2014Time:11:00 - 12:00Venue:Lecture Theatre C, RCSCampus:South Kensington Campus  Event type:LectureAudience:Open to all Contact:Lisa Cheung

Graphene technology as a platform for flexible electronics: opportunities and challenges

Dr Stefano Borini, Principal Researcher at Nokia Research Center (Cambridge UK Laboratory).

Graphene and other two-dimensional materials could constitute the future technology platform that will enable novel electronic devices, particularly within the emerging field of flexible electronics. Several applications - such as wearables, distributed sensors and mobile healthcare – could benefit  from the increase of graphene technology’s maturity. The talk will give an overview of the main opportunities and challenges related to the development of such technology, with some concrete examples from either the Graphene Flagship project or Nokia’s internal research activity."

[diversification] 23/11/2018 07:34

Oh well, the next update will come when it comes. Ultimately makes no difference to my investment horizon. 1 day closer and all that 👍

[axotyl] 23/11/2018 07:27

Could you please check 8am, 9am....Sandwich?

[grabster] 23/11/2018 07:21

The basics of this we saw last year - but some aspects updated:

[club sandwich] 23/11/2018 07:14

so much for an RNS this morning - or one at 7am, anyway...