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Canada Partners With Grafoid Inc. — Awards $8.1 Million to Automate MesoGraf™ Graphene Production

TORONTO (Marketwired – February 20, 2015) — The Hon. Greg Rickford, Minister of Natural Resources and Minister Responsible for Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) announced today the award of $8.1 million to Grafoid Inc. – Canada’s leading graphene technologies and applications developer – to automate Grafoid’s production of its low-cost, …

KINGSTON, Ontario (November 12, 2014) – Grafoid Inc. is pleased and honoured to announce its recent win of the 2014 New Business of the Year by the Kingston Chamber of Commerce. The Award was presented at the Chamber’s 19th annual Business Achievement Awards Gala. Nominations were solicited from members of …

OTTAWA (October 3, 2014) — Grafoid Inc. is pleased to announce it has reached final agreement and closed its acquisition of ALCERECO Inc., a technology leader in advanced composite materials, alloys and coatings and a company focused on the development, testing and production of advanced materials. Under the terms of …

OTTAWA – Grafoid Inc., a complete solutions graphene company, announced today its acquisition of Braille Battery, Inc. of Sarasota, Florida – an internationally recognized developer and manufacturer of advanced, lightweight lithium ion automotive batteries. Financial details of the acquisition were not released. Braille Battery is a global leader in the development, production …

Creating 160 Technology Jobs Generating $32 Million in Local Economic Benefits OTTAWA – Grafoid Inc., Canada’s supplier and the producer of high purity, high energy density graphene officially opened its Kingston, Ontario production facilities today in a ceremony attended by civic, provincial and federal representatives. In tandem with the official …

OTTAWA – June 10, 2014 – Grafoid Inc. wishes to correct the information regarding the currency of the consideration paid to the shareholders of ALCERECO Inc. for the purchase of all the issued and outstanding shares of ALCERECO. Grafoid will purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of ALCERECO …

OTTAWA (June 9, 2014) — Grafoid Inc. is pleased to announce it has reached agreement in principle (the “Agreement”) for the acquisition of ALCERECO Inc. (“ALCERECO” or the “Acquisition”). ALCERECO Inc. is a global technology leader in advanced composite materials, alloys and coatings focused on the development, testing and production …

OTTAWA – April 8, 2014 – Mr. Gary Economo, Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner of Grafoid Inc. (“Grafoid” or the “Company”) announced today the appointment of Mr. Thomas H. Cruikshank as a strategic advisor to the Company. Grafoid, with R&D and production facilities in Singapore, Canada and the United …

OTTAWA (April 3, 2014) Grafoid Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with Altamat Inc. for the construction of an atomization facility to produce MesoGraf™graphene-based powders and filaments for 3D printing. The agreement was signed by Grafoid Chief Executive Officer Gary Economo and by Dr. Hani Henein …

OTTAWA — March 25, 2014 — Grafoid Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Grafoid and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ( “Mitsui” ), one of Japan’s leading corporations, to identify and develop market opportunities in Japan for Grafoid’s MesoGraf™ – the first universally trademarked …

OTTAWA (Sept. 5, 2013) — Grafoid Inc. announced today the formation of Calevia Inc., a joint venture partnership with ProScan RX Pharma Inc. to develop an entirely new graphene-based nanotechnology platform for the precise targeting and thermal eradication of solid cancer tumors. Grafoid President and CEO Gary Economo said Calevia’s unique …

SUMMIT, New Jersey (Aug. 13, 2013) — A new provisional patent application was filed July 10, 2013 by Gearhart Law for inventors Karim Zaghib, Gordon Chiu, Abdelbast Guerfi, and Amélie Forand. The application describes a new composition using a type of graphene. This novel material will be important for the …

OTTAWA (July 8, 2013) — Grafoid Inc. (“Grafoid”) is pleased to announce the close of part of a private financing with qualified U.S. investors for aggregate gross proceeds of USD $3,532,000 (the ‘’Offering’’) by issuing a total of 7,064,000 common shares at a price of USD $0.50 per share. Grafoid …

SINGAPORE (May 23, 2013) — Editor’s note: The following is the text of a speech delivered at 0945 Singapore time, Thursday, May 23, 2013 to the “New Diamond Nano Carbons” Conference by Grafoid Inc. President and CEO Gary Economo. Highlights • Grafoid unveils investment in bulk production of MesoGraf™ graphene, …

OTTAWA (April 16, 2013) — Focus Graphite Inc. (TSX-V:FMS)(OTCQX:FCSMF) (FRANKFURT:FKC) on behalf of Grafoid Inc. (“Grafoid”) is pleased to announce the signing of a two-year R&D agreement between Grafoid Inc. and the University of Waterloo to investigate and develop a graphene-based composite for electrochemical energy storage for the automotive and/or portable …

OTTAWA (April 9, 2013) — Focus Graphite Inc. (TSX-V:FMS) (OTCQX:FCSMF) (FRANKFURT:FKC) on behalf of Grafoid Inc., announced today Grafoid’s joint venture development agreement with Coquitlam, British Columbia-based CapTherm Systems Inc. to develop and commercialize next generation, multiphase thermal management systems for electric vehicle (EV) battery and light emitting diode (LED) technologies. …

OTTAWA (Nov. 26, 2012) — Grafoid Inc., a privately owned graphene development company announced today the signing of the three-year research and development agreement with Hydro-Québec’s Research Institute for the development of next generation rechargeable batteries using graphene with lithium iron phosphate materials. Grafoid President and CEO Mr. Gary Economo …

OTTAWA (Aug. 20, 2012) — Focus Graphite Inc. (TSX-V: FMS; OTCQX: FCSMF; FSE: FKC) is pleased to announce that Grafoid Inc. – in which Focus Graphite holds an ownership stake – has executed a Joint Intellectual Property Development Agreement with New Jersey based CVD Equipment Corporation (NASDAQ: CVV). (Please see …

OTTAWA (Dec. 1, 2011) — Gary Economo, President and CEO of Focus Metals Inc., (TSX-V: FMS; OTCQX: FCSMF; GR: FKC) “Focus Metals” and Grafoid Inc., “Grafoid” announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Grafoid Inc. and Rutgers University AMIPP Advanced Polymer Center to jointly develop graphene …

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Can your supermaterial do this?

TORONTO (Toronto Star) — While scientists are working on thousands of potential applications for graphene, researchers at the Grafoid Global Technology Centre in Kingston, Ont., are focusing on coatings of the material, which they say promises more immediate benefits.

TORONTO (Toronto Star) — Mark Gallerneault is director of technology at a research lab in Kingston, Ont., that could soon launch Canada into the forefront of a coming graphene revolution. “It’s going from a curiosity to something that people can actually work with,” says Gallernault, who works out of the …

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Winding borders may enhance graphene

LONDON (Phys.org) — Far from being a defect, a winding thread of odd rings at the border of two sheets of graphene has qualities that may prove valuable to manufacturers, according to Rice University scientists.

SEOUL (BusinessKorea) — A Korean research team has successfully developed a technology to make a sponge-like electrode material using graphene and a polymer, leading to a graphene battery. The newly-developed battery is ten times as small as existing ones, but can show the same product performance.

MELBOURNE (Gizmag.com) — Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene-based LED device that could form the basis of flexible screens for use in the next-generation of mobile phones, tablets and televisions. The incredibly thin display was created using sandwiched “heterostructures”, …

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Researchers make magnetic graphene

LONDON (Phys.org) — A team of physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene, while also preserving graphene’s electronic properties. The finding has the potential to increase graphene’s use in computers.

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Graphene multiplies the power of light

LONDON (Phys.org) — Could graphene turn light to electricity? Scientists have shown that graphene can convert a single photon to multiple electrons, showing much promise for future photovoltaics devices.

LONDON (Simon Moores/Benchmarkminerals.com) — Deutsche Bank believes we are at the dawn of a new auto era with “unprecedented technological and regulatory change” set to come in the next 5 years. In a new report viewed by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence that analyses the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain, the banking …

DALLAS (MarketsandMarkets.com) — The global graphene electronics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 46.8% from 2014 to 2020 and the overall graphene electronics market in 2013 was around $58.53 million, which is expected to reach to $1512.10 million in 2020. The major players in graphene electronics market …

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Graphene’s mighty strength confirmed

LONDON (newelectronics) — Graphene’s exceptional strength has been confirmed by a team of Rice University researchers, who have tested the material’s properties by peppering it with microbullets. Led by materials scientist Edwin Thomas, the team used less than 1lb of graphene to prove that the material is on average 10 …

TORONTO (Luc Duchesne/InvestorIntel) — With the recent progress in the inclusion graphene in batteries as material for anodes, cathodes or supercapacitors, it seems reasonable to think we should accept the new naming convention “graphene battery” to reflect the immense contribution of graphene in increasing charging power and reversible capacity.

VANCOUVER (Charlotte McLeod/Graphite Investing News) — Dr. Gordon Chiu, President and Chief Technology Officer at Grafoid Inc., talks about the future of graphene and a new exciting partnership in an exclusive Q&A with Charlotte McLeod of Graphite Investing News.

LONDON (Andrew Bounds/ft.com) — Graphene, the wonder material discovered a decade ago, could soon be used in false teeth as it emerges out of the lab and into consumer products. Manchester-based 2-DTech aims to use the two-dimensional layer of carbon – which is super-strong, light and electrically conductive – in …

BRISTOL, England (Nanotechweb.org) — Graphene laminate coatings can improve the thermal conductivity of plastic materials by up to 600 times. This new result, from an international team of researchers led by Alexander Balandin and Konstantin Novoselov, could substantially increase the potential range of practical applications for plastics, allowing them to …

PETALUMA, California (The Gold Report) — In an interview with The Gold Report, Ron Struthers says investors need to focus on graphite companies with strategies designed to position themselves with green energy and technology firms. He names Focus Graphite and its sister companies Stria Lithium and Grafoid as among the …

TORONTO (Tracy Weslosky/InvestorIntel) — When a kind word is spoken and praise is heaped upon a technology mining conglomerate by the doyen of the renewable energy sector, it doesn’t go unnoticed by our editorial team. Grafoid CEO Gary Economo and his partner teams at Focus Graphite, Stria Lithium, Hydro-Quebec, Braille …

VANCOUVER (Charlotte McLeod/Graphite Investing News) — To learn what highlights and themes came out of the Graphene World Summit, GIN got in touch with Grafoid’s Dr. Gordon Chiu, who also discussed the graphene company’s plans to incubate several of its current projects.

LONDON (Simon Moores/Benchmarkminerals.com) — Graphite is not just graphite. It is not a product you can easily buy off the shelf from any producer and use directly in your batteries. Whether or not you can use your chosen graphite product (grade) depends heavily on where it is from and how …

TORONTO (Andrew Lee/CBC News) — Flash forward to present day, and I find myself in a sea of white tents, the temporary garages for teams in the FIA Formula E Championship — an open-wheeled, electric car race held on a street track in Beijing this Saturday that organizers say is …

TORONTO (Alessandro Bruno/InvestorIntel) — Grafoid Inc. announced it acquired 75% of Braille Battery (Braille), which has designs and manufactures lightweight Li-Ion batteries for the automotive market. The acquisition will allow Grafoid to gain a high profile platform through which to develop graphene, which will be used by Braille to improve …

BEIJING (Xinhua) — Tesla’s critically acclaimed all-electric Model S sedan can travel roughly 265 miles on a single charge, according to the EPA, but CEO Elon Musk last month said “it will be possible to have a 500-mile range car,” adding “in fact, we could do it quite soon.” According …

OTTAWA (CBC.ca) — An Ottawa company developing uses for ultra-thin material graphene has opened a new technology centre in Kingston. Graphene is a one atom-thick layer of graphite, a material used in pencil lead and hockey sticks. It is very strong and flexible, it conducts heat and electricity and it …

TORONTO (CBC/All In A Day) — Gary Economo, Grafoid’s CEO, explains the wonders of graphene and what the company is doing on the development side to build everything from solar panels to flexible, wearable technology. To listen to the audio segment, click on link below and scroll down to Aug. …

KINGSTON (Kingston-Whig Standard) — (Grafoid’s) expanded Innovation Park space will already house 40 jobs while the addition of another 120 is expected over the course of the next 12 to 18 months. “Grafoid’s growth plans are imminent – we are moving ahead on many different fronts,” said Gary Economo, the …

TORONTO (Alessandro Bruno/InvestorIntel) — Focus Graphite is developing one of the most important graphite projects in North America at Lac Knife, Que. Grafoid Inc. is Focus Graphite’s graphene research and development partner. It is not surprising, therefore, that Grafoid will join other Canadian and international advanced technology companies in setting …

KINGSTON (Kingston Whig-Standard) — Grafoid Inc. is set to open in Kingston next week following the acquistion of the local advanced materials group ALCERECO Inc. earlier this summer, bringing with it scores of jobs and a boost for the local economy.

MUNICH (Technische Universitat Munchen) — Physicists at Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM) are using the special properties of graphene to produce key elements of an artificial retina. With their research program, the researchers were admitted to the heavily funded Graphene Flagship Program of the EU.

LONDON (CNBC International) Formula One cars are made largely of carbon fiber but graphene has the potential to make F1 cars smaller and lighter, but remain strong, Mark Priestly tells CNBC.

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Super-thin science: 2D or not to be ….

SINGAPORE (Sunday Times of London) — Super-thin materials could soon be created in Singapore. These can make electric cars lighter, medical devices safer and even large touchscreens so thin and flexible they can be folded and put into pockets. The National Research Foundation has poured $50 million into a new …

SEOUL (Bloomberg News) — The main battleground between Samsung Electonics and Apple Inc. in the global smartphone market is moving from courtrooms to the laboratory, amid a race for patents on atom-thick technology for the next-generation device.

TORONTO (Alessandro Bruno/InvestorIntel) — Grafoid Inc., part of Focus Graphite has appointed Mr. Thomas H. Cruikshank, the former Chairman and CEO of Halliburton, as Strategic Advisor. This the third major strategic announcement to come out of Grafoid in less than a month after they announced forming a partnership with Mitsui …

TORONTO (Alessandro Bruno/InvestorIntel) — Focus Graphite Inc. is ever closer to bringing graphene to the mass market through its partner Grafoid Inc., in which it has a substantial stake. In the past few weeks, Grafoid has announced a series of important deals aiming at bringing graphene to the mass market. …

VANCOUVER (Charlotte McLeod/Graphite Investing News) — As March 25 drew to a close, privately held graphene research, development and investment company Grafoid announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mitsui & Co. under which the companies will complete a one-year market feasibility study to “identify and …

TORONTO (Alessandro Bruno/InvestorIntel) — On March 24, Grafoid Inc., part of Focus Graphite, announced that it has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mitsui Co. Ltd.’s Advanced Materials Division. The alliance with Mitsui is very significant; indeed, Mitsui Co. Ltd. is one of the largest of the seven …

OTTAWA — Welcome to the first in our series of newsletters aimed at keeping our stakeholders current on Grafoid’s corporate activities, achievements and expansion plans as the graphene industry moves toward commercialization.

(Sebastian Anthony/ExtremeTech) — Graphene Engineers at IBM Research have built the world’s most advanced graphene-based chip, with performance that’s 10,000 times better than previous graphene ICs. The key to the breakthrough is a new manufacturing technique that allows the graphene to be deposited on the chip without it being damaged …

LONDON (Laura Syrett/Industrial Minerals) — There are several ways of producing graphene out of everything from rocks to thin air. Laura Syrett looks at the benefits of using natural graphite, an industrial mineral with a modestly sized market, as a source from which to make this game-changing material.

DUBLIN (Business Wire) Research and Markets has announced the addition of the Global Graphene Market 2012-2016 report to its offering. The analysts forecast the Global Graphene market to grow at a CAGR of 60.4 per cent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth …

(Dr. Luc Duchesne/InvestorIntel) A new technology announced by ProScanRxPharma Inc., Grafoid Inc. and Calevia Inc. can selectively search and destroy cancerous prostate cells and destroy it with a flash of red light combining biotechnology and advanced graphene technologies to provide ground-breaking new medical technology. Reaching this level of innovation requires massive …

(Authored by Ellie Zolfagharifard/Daily Mail Online) An accidental discovery has led to the creation of the world’s thinnest sheet of glass – at just one molecule thick. The ‘pane’ of glass is so impossibly thin that its individual silicon and oxygen atoms are clearly visible using a microscope. The discovery …

(Laura Syrett/Industrial Minerals) As global interest in graphene continues to snowball at an astounding rate, research into commercializing carbon science’s vaunted miracle material is an intensely competitive business. The world of high-tech industry teaches us that commercial operators are usually reluctant to share the spoils of technical innovation; but graphene …

(Alessandro Bruno/ProEdgeWire) Today, May 23, 2013, Grafoid Inc., part of Focus Graphite (TSXV: FMS | OTCQX: FCSMF), announced the launch of a trademarked graphene product called MesoGraf™ (‘MesoGraf’). The product represents nothing short of the first platform for the industrialization and commercialization of graphene. Stories about graphene’s novel applications and …

(Laura Syrett/Industrial Minerals) The first trademarked graphene product, MesoGraf, will be officially launched on Thursday by Canadian mining and technology firm Focus Graphite Inc., the company has exclusively revealed to IM. MesoGraf, a branded graphene technology which could bridge the gap between the material’s science and commercialisation, will be launched …

(Eoghan Macguire and Matthew Knight/CNN Labs) Ever since it was discovered in 2004, graphene has been hailed as a natural wonder of the materials world destined to transform our lives in the 21st century. Graphene’s amazing properties excite and confound in equal measure. How can something one million times thinner …

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The graphene race …

(Gary Economo/InvestorIntel) Graphene is to technology as the steam engine was to the Industrial Revolution. Today’s graphene race to lead a new industrial revolution is fueled by economic necessity, national security and the desire to lever graphene’s myriad advantages. Graphene, a one-atom thick honeycomb lattice derived from graphite has the …

(Authored by Lee Bruno/WIRED) It was a Friday evening at the University of Manchester and scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov were conducting the sort of playful experiment for which they’ve earned a reputation. In the past Geim had levitated a frog with a magnetic field and won an IgNoble …

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9 incredible uses for graphene

(Leslie Horn/Gizmodo) — Graphene is amazing. Or at least, it could be. Made from a layer of carbon one-atom thick, it’s the strongest material in the world, it’s completely flexible, and it’s more conductive than copper. Discovered just under a decade ago, the supermaterial potentially has some unbelievable applications for …

(Steve Connor/The Independent) Graphene is to technology as the steam engine was to the Industrial Revolution. Today’s graphene race to lead a new industrial revolution is fueled by economic necessity, national security and the desire to lever graphene’s myriad advantages. Graphene, a one-atom thick honeycomb lattice derived from graphite has …

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Graphene: Made in Manchester (video)

Posted on March 12, 2013 (University of Manchester/YouTube) The two dimensional material was first isolated by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov at The University of Manchester. It is the thinnest material known and yet also one of the strongest. It conducts electricity as efficiently as copper and outperforms …

(Laura Syrett/Industrial Minerals) Graphene, the “wonder material” of the nano-carbon world, has been chosen as one of the projects to receive at least 500M euros ($672M) in funding from the European Commission’s flagship Future Emerging Technology initiative, it was announced today.

(InvestorIntel/ Russia Beyond Headlines) Scientists at Moscow State University, together with colleagues at Rice University, have discovered a new property of graphene. Work carried out in laboratories at the two universities has revealed that graphene can extract radioactive materials from water solutions with great efficiency. This property can be harnessed …

BOSTON — (BusinessWire) Graphene, touted as the next wunderkind material because of its extraordinary properties, will grow to a $126 million market in 2020, from its $9 million base in 2012, according to Lux Research. While an impressive debut for a new material, this growth is less than some of …

(HEAD Tennis/YouTube) Novak Djokovic secretly tested his new HEAD Graphene™ Speed racquet during his preparation for the new season — with some very surprising results. Watch the video reveal of what actually happened on-court during the secret test.

Posted on Oct. 11, 2010 (speech notes by Dr. Gordon Chiu/International Graphene Conference in Brussels) Good morning. My name is Dr. Gordon Chiu. I am a co-founder of Grafoid and hold the title of Vice President. I am also Chief Scientist of Focus Metals Inc., the owner and developer of …

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