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Elcora Resources Announces the Development of an Industrial Scale, High Quality, Graphene Production Process
HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / January 11, 2016 / Troy Grant, President and CEO of ELCORA RESOUR...
About this update from Elcora Advanced Materials Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":"Elcora Resources Announces the Development of an Industrial Scale, High Quality, Graphene Production ProcessHALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / January 11, 2016 / Troy Grant, President and CEO of ELCORA RESOURCES CORP. (OTCQB: ECORF) (TSXV: ERA) (FSE: ELM), (the \"Company\" or \"Elcora\"), is pleased to announce that \"the company is continuing the development of a unique graphene production process, which can use a wide variety of graphite sources as raw material to produce consistent high quality graphene\". The Elcora system uses vertical integration in the mining, processing, and refining to optimize the graphite for the process. The company has developed a new industrial process, which is a trade secret that is capable of transforming Elcora graphite into high quality graphene. The synthesis of the graphene, itself, does not depend on the graphite source as long as it is properly processed. This means that the Elcora process can be used with a wide range of graphite sources.\"The development of this unique graphene production process as well as the equipment is a significant milestone for Elcora\" said Troy Grant, \"the beauty of the system is that it can work with a wide variety of graphite sources so we are not limited by the graphite supply. Once completed, we will be able to supply the market with consistent high quality graphene that is made from natural graphite. We believe this will be a huge contribution to the graphene industry.\" Elcora's graphene was independently tested at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, CA2DM (previously known as Graphene Research Centre, GRC) at the National University of Singapore and is currently ranked by CA2DM number one in the world in terms of quality due to the low number of layer, structural quality, crystallite size, carbon content, and morphology. These results were presented by Prof. Antonio H. Castro Neto, Director of CA2DM, at the international conference \"Graphene Canada 2015\" in Montreal. CA2DM/GRC has been dedicated to graphene R&D since 2010 and has received over 200 million dollars in funding. It is reported that Prof. Antonio Castro Neto played an important role in the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize that was awarded to Russians Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of Manchester University. In recognition of Dr. Castro Neto's contribution to the graphene industry, Science For Bra...