Hi Kelly and Colleagues,
Pleased to see you are excited about discovering the secrets that our
char making processes can manifest. Graphite structures were observed in
our gasification waste char back about 1978-9, but what you call
graphene was suggested to us as being fullerine carbon. Like yourselves,
a number of different researchers have identified potential to use these
carbons, but need funding to pursue their research. Producing a
commercially pure product may have challenges, especially competing
against existing suppliers, probably more difficult than selling
gasifiers(:-)
The Raman spectroscopy data
<http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6271>was done here in New
Zealand and some 40 samples analyzed if I remember correctly. I have the
original Paper on file on file if anyone is interested to obtain a copy.
You can see some early photos "Carbon Blacks" November 2008, and the
later "Char and Graphitic Soot" December 2011 in the files of the
Fluidyne Archive. http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com/
Hope this may be of interest.
Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.
On 21/06/16 07:58, Kelly Burnham wrote:
Folks,
Just wanted to put the word out on some recent and /exciting
/developments at Proton Power.
In order to further characterize of our biochar, a member of our
material science team (formerly with Oak Ridge National Labs), was
analyzing Raman spectroscopy data
<http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6271> and noticed
pronounced spikes, suggesting the presence of graphite and *graphene
<https://gigaom.com/2013/07/15/what-is-graphene-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-a-material-that-could-be-the-next-silicon/>*.
Further research with ORNL is planned
and
at a retail price if $100/gram
for graphene,
it's bound to generate some interest in Proton's unique gasification
technology.
Also recently,
a medical
researcher
report
ed
that they
exposed
our
bio
char
to
a laser and the material
responded by
curling
into tubular shapes,
similar to
'nanotubes'
.
Please feel free to contact me directly if there's any interest on the
aforementioned developments
Thanks,
Kelly
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