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[woodpeckers] 31/8/2019 21:30

"incrementally, this is already becoming our everyday reality...something truly revolutionary and unique."

And we're invested in the only NGI verified manufacturer of it!....

[woodpeckers] 31/8/2019 21:22

This article is an interview with Andre Geim ( in it he mentions that he works with Brian Cox, maisto) from September last year... I may have missed it...for those like me...worth a read... specifically comments such as these...

"In one of your interviews you’ve mentioned that the 20th century history demonstrates that it takes from 20 to 40 years for new materials or drugs to get to the mass production stage. It is the same for graphene? There are lots of news articles testifying to its increasing use by the industry, but it seems that it hasn’t reached the mass market yet.

Look here: starting from the Stone Age, we used to think of materials as something characterised by height, length, and width. But now, after ten thousand years of our civilization’s existence, we’ve managed to find novel materials that challenge our conventional perspectives. This is a whole new class of materials, but these kinds of breakthroughs don’t work like the field of software, where you can come up with a program and become a millionaire after a couple of years, gaining so big a recognition that people will soon believe that phones were invented by Steve Jobs and computers by Bill Gates. My line of work, condensed-matter physics, spans more than 70 years: our scientific predecessors started by looking into how silicon works, then moved to germanium, then began to make switches and so on. If we return to graphene, there are already hundreds of Chinese companies using it to make profits. That’s only what I know of; there may be others. You can see graphene-based products everywhere you look: from footwear soles to paint. However incrementally, this is already becoming our everyday reality. But this process is quite slow when compared to the industry scale. Mass production of graphene started only in 2010, so we have to give it time. There’s a high chance that in 10 years we will witness not only graphene-made skis or tennis rackets, but possibly something truly revolutionary and unique.

[maisto] 31/8/2019 21:21

Can you site a link for that statement from Brian Cox aintree? My wife and I are big fans of his (actually going to see him live on tour in September). I did a quick search on google but didn't come across any trillions :). The most relevant article was back in 2015 when he referred to graphene as a 'gold mine'.

[woodpeckers] 31/8/2019 20:02

Aintree, I agree, Prof Cox would be a great patron to have on board.

If he thinks that "the graphene industry as potentially valued at multi trillions of pounds and having almost limitless potential" then I am even more confident than I was before.

Your "nervous twitch" is, I think, actually just excitement building. All the news coming out of the company is that everything is on schedule so there is absolutely no reason to think differently.

[johnveals] 31/8/2019 19:56

That would be a share price of about £1000 give or take a few pence. Should keep clubbie happy.

[johnveals] 31/8/2019 19:41

Wot’s 1% (let’s not be greedy) of multi trillions of pounds?

[laginaneil] 31/8/2019 19:05

Article dated - 31 August 2019

Wouldn't this be great if we could get Nanene in the rubber and polygrene

to replace the aluminium wheel !

What do you think, 5 years from now?

[grabster] 31/8/2019 11:27

thanks vs9

I see that is from The Spectator, whose Deputy Editor is Mary Wakefield, wife of Dominic Cummings, (Boris's chief henchman at No.10) who is the guy who sacked Ms Khan.

None of which is relevant, I know. I am just pleased to see that Aecom appears to be usefully close to various government contacts. ;-)

EDIT: Aecom has a connection with Hyatt Corporation (one of whose hotels the event was at), having project managed the construction of some of their hotels.


Anyway, enough of this - I have to go clean out the henhouse and feed the fish.

[vs9] 31/8/2019 11:18

I think it is a simpler explanation @grabster
- AECOM sponsored one of the sessions here:



Lara Poloni was part of a panel on Diversity.

[grabster] 31/8/2019 10:47

Fat Controller - well spotted! Barrhead News used that same image (from a previous Tory Party Conference in Birmingham):


So why was she wearing an Aecom badge at a Tory conference?
(picture taken outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel - and in bigger views of the same picture another slightly older blonde woman to her right (Liz Truss?) also appeared to be wearing the same Aecom badge)


EDIT: Looking for what connection she might have had with Aecom (which still wouldn't explain Aecom passes at a Tory conference) her past roles include ".. Miss Khan was recruited by Liam Fox at the Dept For International Trade.. then.. last September.. Philip Hammond asked her to join him at The Treasury to replace his longstanding aide Poppy Trowbridge. After Hammond resigned.. she was offered a chance to return to Dept of International Trade with Dr Fox's successor Liz Truss, with whome she had previously worked at The Treasury.. But when Mr Javid called asking her to become his Special Adviser she couldn't refuse him ... it was a big job and she's an ambitious girl, says an insider...

None of which clarifies the Aecom connection - though her DIT connection might be linked?
Had Aecom put on a presentation at the conference (at DIT instigation) that she and Hammond were just leaving when photoed?

[laginaneil] 31/8/2019 09:18

Morning folks,

For those bored over the weekend more on mosquitos :



Note the lines that say:

'We find that graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide films both stop mosquito biting, but the primary mechanism is not puncture resistance but a chemical concealment property..'


I communicated with tech dept of a company that makes anti mosquito clothing
and they said 'it does not work wet..'

[1teepee] 31/8/2019 08:44

Dangerous talk, are you a premium member?

[ic0gcds00] 31/8/2019 08:29

Pity the uk wasnt the sameOur economy is still in the fark agesOnly salvation is VRS

[the fat controller] 31/8/2019 08:19

Front page of the Times shows a picture of Sonia Khan, aide to Sajid Javid, and sacked by Cummings apparently. She’s wearing an AECOM security pass. #justsaying

[redchef] 30/8/2019 22:47

Graphene's latest neat trick? Stopping mosquitoes from biting you - Digital Trendshttps://apple.news/ABxK3WMJNS1Sm9GKc6PCYbg

[scottishfield] 30/8/2019 18:28

Yes, excellent, tks lagin.

[alchemy] 30/8/2019 18:26

Reading a Nobel Prize economist - Stiglitz- wrt China .720 million taken out of poverty in two decades or so.Forty years ago $150 per head per annum.He's having a real go at the US economy and Trump.He's a Keynesian - like all good economists. Investment rules the roost .

[grabster] 30/8/2019 18:26

Shame it's such an insipid logo - but well found lag.

[laginaneil] 30/8/2019 18:11

Hello Folks,

VRS new trade mark application yesterday, figurative for Polygrene:



Wonder what this will go on first ?

[jim claire] 30/8/2019 17:56

hxxps://youtu.be/CaELQS5kTso

Interesting video how advanced china’s becoming and at what pace they are growing should be good for us.

[manora] 30/8/2019 15:34

Also, a reminder with September imminent, especially for those attending the AGM:
In October 2018, Versarien completed its acquisition of 62% of the Spanish company Gnanomat S.L. for £2,647,000 of which £673,000 was in cash and £1,974,000 in shares. In addition, VRS will provide a convertible loan to GNA of €750,000 in September 2019 and €500,000 in March 2020.

[dgduncan] 30/8/2019 15:26

While waiting for the future news, I would suggest reviewing the annual report again. It makes one feel as good as in the old Hamlet advert. I am so relaxed they might have put another substance in the tobacco :)