Now in my opinion the news is incredible and the test results historic...
HIGHLIGHTS
• Graphene Yield percentage (from exfoliated portion of graphite) in excess of 90%.
• Graphene Yield percentage (from total graphite) was in excess of 43.6%. With optimisation MRL anticipates the total yield to approach the TGC of the graphite.
• These results from a leading Australian university are particularly exciting as the tests are preliminary in nature and expected to improve with optimisation.
• The process is extremely quick with graphene produced and completed within ten (10) minutes.
Who else can state this?
These results are very historic and combined with hundreds of brownfield sites to start drawing upon combined with disciplined management and really skies the limit in my opinion.
THE UNIVERSITY of Adelaide will help test and refine the process for extracting premium graphene from MRL’s graphite.
Prof Dusan Losic and a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide’s School of Chemical Engineering will conduct laboratory tests to determine the optimum electrochemical exfoliation process for extracting graphene from the high-grade graphite which MRL extracts from its sites in Sri Lanka.
The UoA will then assemble a temporary, scaled down pilot plant to test and further optimise this extraction process, looking at ways to maximise yields, and speed up the exfoliation process.
This is a continuation of previous tests undertaken by the researchers at the university, which found that MRL’s graphite could be used for scalable graphene production.
They showed that MRL’s graphite has very high crystalline carbon content not observed in any other previously tested graphite materials.
A separate round of tests by the University of Adelaide found that the graphene yield percentage from the exfoliated portion of the graphite was more than 90 percent, while the graphene yield percentage from total graphite was more than 43.6 percent.
As researchers and the industry continue to investigate applications for graphene, the material’s industrial uptake and application is challenged by the availability of consistent quality, cost and scalability in production.
According to Prof Losic, electrochemical processing of MRL’s graphite has high potential for developing low-cost and scalable production of high-quality and high-purity graphene. This could eventually bring graphene and graphene-based products at larger quantities and lower prices to industry consumers.
Each to their own but I think MRL Corporation just needs to keep being aggressive and keep being disciplined and rigorous.
I think this is just the tip of the Ice-berg; in my opinion Flakers have no idea and most miss the change of Materials History more significant then the invention of Steel.
Value-Adding is significant and is very costly for the rest compared with SL Vein.
What do you think ?
I think Leverage; Risk Reduction and Mathematics are going to be driving many more Big Fish taking up a piece of this to enjoy the next phase of the company. Many long-termers I think are starting to hear about this and it wont take them a long time to do their due diligence.
Could be 100% Wrong!!! DYOR !!!
Kind Regards
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