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[festario] 08/7/2019 07:57

Progress on a new front.

[aquaesulis01] 08/7/2019 07:55

Lucky,

interesting article from Gnanomat as to the current battery and super capacitor state of play and mention of the potential for graphene to improve current charging and hold properties. (click the picture in the link to see the full text)


hxxps://gnanomat.com/2019/05/16/innovative-energy-storage-systems/

[ellissj] 08/7/2019 07:54

check out matts presentation from geic id pdf. See his comments on japan ! :) Is this rns a progression from the testing underway with the japanese/usa NDA ? If so, very encouraging and v well done neill and co. Waiting for poddy. Aimo Best ellis

[chillpill] 08/7/2019 07:51

Surfs up,dudes!



Not necessarily VRS but acceptance is growing.

[molatovkid] 08/7/2019 07:49

Could be one of these guys....

Denso is the largest automotive parts manufacturer in Japan, and consistently a global leader as well. Their specialty is in electronic systems and powertrain control modules. Despite being part of Toyota group, they sell parts to various car makers in Europe, China, and North America.

Other notable Japanese tier-1 suppliers holding top spots globally include major companies such as Aisin Seiki, Yazaki, JTEKT and Hitachi Automotive Systems, to just name a few.

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[wuzy] 08/7/2019 07:47

Fantastic news

[harrysol] 08/7/2019 07:46

We've recently had oil and gas and now automotive. As the testing phases of the numerous collaborations comes to an end [bearing in mind that none of the collaborations have failed], I think we'll see the big orders. This tree is about the catch a fever!!!!

[jointer13] 08/7/2019 07:46

another validation of our quality products.

"After initial graphene quality testing trials, the Customer, has placed development orders for 1kg each of Versarien's high purity graphene nano platelets ("GNP-HP") and Nanene."

[markyboy5] 08/7/2019 07:45

Dgduncan, none of the rods or poles had Graphene in them.
I have found one company that have developed a fly fishing rod.

The team from Mackenzie DTX have teamed up with Professor Gary Savage, former Formula One World Team Champion and one of the world's leading experts in carbon and composites to bring to market what has to be regarded as the most advanced fly rod ever made! With Professor Savage's help, Scott Mackenzie and his team have designed and built a world first - a fly rod incorporating a new super material called Graphene!

So what is Graphene? The Mackenzie FX1 is the first double-handed salmon rod to use Graphene, a Nobel Prize winning material that is set to revolutionise carbon-composite engineering. Discovered at the University of Manchester in 2004, Graphene is the strongest and stiffest material known to man. It is up to 300 times stronger than steel, even stronger than diamond, and 30 times stronger than Kevlar - the material used for bullet proof vests! Graphene recently revolutionised the tennis world after Head launched a new tennis racket using the material, now used used by Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic.

The way it is used in the manufacture of the FX1 blank is in the form of multi-walled carbon nanotubes - 1 atom thick sheets of hexagonally bonded carbon formed into tubes and added to a state of the art resin. Being 32 times stiffer than steel per unit mass. The sub-microscopic cylinders of carbon on a weight-for-weight basis are at least 120, and up to 300 times stronger than steel and 30 times stronger than Kevlar!

Approximately 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, Graphene nanotubes can stretch considerably rather like plasticine before breaking, up to 14 percent of their normal length. Their aspect ratio (length/diameter) can be up to 130 million: 1. To illustrate this, if we think of a carbon nanotube as a piece of spaghetti (typically 2mm in diameter) then, at this scale, the tube would be 66km long!

The Mackenzie FX1 blank is impregnated with this resin incorporating a weave of this new Graphene nanotube material. We tried the rod in less than ideal conditions and found that it flexes well during the cast and recovers powerfully. The fast recovery makes it easier to cast further with little effort, yet retains the 'feel' that is so important in a Salmon fly rod, especially if your casting is not on top form.

As well as being the first rod to incorporate Graphene, the blanks are produced using a further unique process where the blanks are cured inside a high pressure Auto Clave, a machine normally used to make parts for the motor racing and aerospace industries. This extra process removes as much air as possible from between the carbon layers in the blank as it is cured that would normally remain trapped during the normal rod making process, creating a much stronger blank which means the FX1 rods are extremely strong and durable. With these new manufacturing processes, the new Mackenzie FX1 Graphene Salmon rods are at the forefront of global design and composite engineering using new materials and techniques currently being developed for aerospace applications 7 to 10 years in advance everyone else!

The FX1 Graphene uses F1 and Aerospace technology to help produce the Ultimate Fly Rod.

I did ask Neill on Twitter if they had been contacted by any pole and rod manufacturers but he didn’t respond.

[battery] 08/7/2019 07:44

Just re-read the release.

"This customer is a global automotive components company "

This is the sort of customer I deal with in my current job. They are not a car company as such but a supplier to, so called Tier-1 supplier. They will supply to a number of car makers they are not tied to one.

I can think of a few Tier-1 Japanese companies that have subsidiaries in the US, mostly not household names but some are. "40 countries, employing in excess of 250,000 people" that's a big multi-national, narrows it down a little.

[grabster] 08/7/2019 07:43

"Those who dismissed the trickle as insignificant lost everything in the flood that followed and were washed away."

[ripasso] 08/7/2019 07:43

Sumitomo Electric perhaps?

[redchef] 08/7/2019 07:38

And so it starts. Slowly at first as the smallest snowball begins to roll down hill picking up speed and growing exponentially untill it becomes a thundering boulder

[rogerbridge] 08/7/2019 07:36

Yes Ellis, quite right and VRS are in the driving seat.

[ellissj] 08/7/2019 07:33

As switch to ev gathers pace, (below article from today) auto firms are in a race to develop new tech to increase vehicle range - via better batteries and lightweighting. Vrs 2D materials well placed to offer the solutions they need imo. Aimo. Best ellis

"British Gas and SSE to purge petrol and diesel from fleets by 2030

Two of big six energy companies sign up to pledge organised by the Climate Group"

Jillian Ambrose

Mon 8 Jul 2019

The Climate Group said the latest pledges mean 49 companies have agreed to remove more than 2m petrol and diesel vehicles from the world’s roads by 2030.

Helen Clarkson, the pressure group’s chief executive, said: “These companies are sending a clear message that the direction of travel for transport is electric, inspiring their staff and customers to follow. Every major business must do the same.”

[ewads] 08/7/2019 07:33

Great to see the actual verification of product to next stage.Looks like predictions for the future is not too far away.

[eel tamer] 08/7/2019 07:33

No one except VRS and the client knows. Confidential. We do know they sold a kilo in 2016 for 100,000GBP though it's not likely to be that much at this point.

[luckyorange] 08/7/2019 07:32

First time the 'development' word has been used, would it be a Japanese ev by any chance?

[jointer13] 08/7/2019 07:32

global expansion...on track.

nice.

[molatovkid] 08/7/2019 07:32

I think you need to visualise a day Honda (or a car maker of a similar standing) is incorporating this in all their cars

[chillpill] 08/7/2019 07:31

Does take too many orders to cover that burn rate of £65k per month.

[ny boy] 08/7/2019 07:31

Could someone with technical knowledge, tell me roughly how much is the value of 1kg of Nanene? Tks

[owenga] 08/7/2019 07:29

Fantastic news.. starting to go from testing to initial orders. Won't be long until they move to full scale up!

[ch1rp] 08/7/2019 07:24

Trickle, trickle......:)))