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Strategic Energy Resources — Investor Presentation (July 2014)
31 slides from Strategic Energy Resources's investor presentation, Jul 8, 2014
Slide 1: Strategic Energy Resources Ltd Investor Presentation
For personal use only Strategic Energy Resources Ltd Investor Presentation 8 July 2014 Mark Muzzin CEO and our team from Monash University on OUR NEW BLACK GOLD Graphene - the wonder material of the 21st century
Slide 2: Disclaimer
Disclaimer For personal use only Certain statements contained in this presentation, including information as to the future financial or operating performance of Strategic Energy Resources (“SER”) and its projects, are forward looking statements. Such forward looking statements: • include, among othe
Slide 3: Corporate Snapshot
Corporate Snapshot For personal use only ASX Code: SER Share Price: $0.044 CoB 7/7/2014 Shares on Issue: 348,622,501 Unlisted Options: 28,000,000 Market Cap: $15.3m Board & Management Glenister Lamont – Non-Executive Chairman Mark Muzzin – Managing Director/CEO Anthony Rechner – Technical Director P
Slide 4: A foot in both camps in Australia
A foot in both camps in Australia For personal use only Graphite Why SER is unique Graphene • Exposure to the graphite market via our • First company to partner with a major shareholding in Valence University and successfully be awarded Industries (ASX: VXL), a company born ARC Linkage grant on grap
Slide 5: Our Graphite involvement
Our Graphite involvement For personal use only • SER owned the Uley Mine and processing plant in SA • VXL spun out of SER. Why?? we wanted to concentrate on the value add side of the business – ie graphene technology • Major shareholding in VXL - 14% over 21.7 million shares • Royalty on gross sales
Slide 6: Our Graphene University link
Our Graphene University link For personal use only • Contacted 5 years ago by Dr Mainak Majumder because we were the only local company with a graphite mine and processing plant • First recipients of ARC Linkage grant on Graphene research, and recently been advised we have been successful again for
Slide 7: Graphene: Our New 'Black Gold'
GRAPHENE: OUR NEW ‘BLACK GOLD’ For personal use only Nanometre-micrometre Millimetre-centimetre Graphite Oxide RGO 4 mm GO 4 µm Sand Mainak Majumder, PhD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Monash University, Clayton, Australia W: http://users.monash.edu.au/~mainakm/ E: mainak.majumder@monash.edu
Slide 8: About me: Dr. Mainak Majumder
For personal use only About me: Dr. Mainak Majumder Senior Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Short Bio: 2001-2003 CSIR, Kolkata, India. 2003-2007 Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. 2007-2010 Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Research interests: experimental nanofluidics, desalinati
Slide 9: What is Graphene?
WHAT IS GRAPHENE? For personal use only 0D buckyballs 1D nanotubes 3D graphite Geim and Novseolov , Nat.Mat, 2007,6, 183-91
Slide 10: How do we make graphene?
HOW DO WE MAKE GRAPHENE? For personal use only graphite powder
Slide 11: Why do we care so much?
WHY DO WE CARE SO MUCH? Strength > 37 GPa Modulus - 1 TPa For personal use only Density -1.4 g/cm3 Electrical resistivity -1 mW cm Langmuir, 2012 Thermal cond. -3 kW/m K Graphene coated Cu Uncoated Cu 50 mm Thinnest material possible (-1 nm thickness) Essentially a polymer 1 mm 1 mm Massive surface
Slide 12: Why are we unique?
WHY ARE WE UNIQUE? For personal use only Research supported by the prestigious ARC Linkage scheme since 2011. Established mining industry-university alliance on graphene research for the first time in the world. Distinguish ourselves in undertaking research that is commercially adaptable, susta
Slide 13: Global challenges of the 21st century
GLOBAL CHALLENGES OF THE 21st For personal use only CENTURY Energy – Breakthrough in Supercapacitor Water – Novel Technologies Derrek E. Lobo Dr. Parama Chakraborty-Banerjee Phillip Sheath
Slide 14: Focus Ion Beam Fabrication
For personal use only Focus Ion Beam Fabrication • High Resolution/small feature size • High Throughput • Complex Geometries • Highly Conductive 4 µm
Slide 15: Devices
For personal use only 100 µm 100 Devices
Slide 16: For personal use only
Exposed region For personal use only 200µm 200µm El-Kady, M. F.; Strong, V.; Dubin, S.; Kaner, R. B., Laser scribing of high-performance and flexible graphene-based electrochemical capacitors. Science 2012, 335 (6074), 1326-1330. • High device density (400 devices per Exposed square cm) region • Hig
Slide 17: For personal use only
For personal use only Smaller Stores high energy Provides high power Fast response Lower resistance Long life
Slide 18: Stores high energy
Stores High energy……………… 0.5 0.45 Us Others For personal use only Energy (Wh/cm3) 0.4 0.35 0.01 0.3 0.008 0.25 0.006 0.2 0.004 0.15 0.002 0.1 0 0.05 0 • 10 times higher than the benchmark • 100 times higher than any other reports
Slide 19: Delivers high power
Delivers High Power…………… 10000000 For personal use only Us Others 1000000 Power (W/cm3) 100000 10000 1000 100 10 1 • 1000 times more power than anyone else
Slide 20: Faster response
Faster response………………… 1000 Us Others For personal use only 100 Response time (millisecond) 10 1 0.1 0.01 • 10 times faster than the benchmark • 100 times faster than any other reports
Slide 21: Lower resistance
Lower resistance………………… 100 Us Others For personal use only Resistance (Ω cm2) 10 1 0.1 • 10 times less resistance
Slide 22: Long life
Long life…………………… For personal use only Efficiency retention % 110 100 99% 90 80 70 60 50 0 200 400 600 800 1000 Cycle Number
Slide 23: Global water scarcity
Global water scarcity For personal use only Access to an Improved Water Source (% of Population) - 2004 Source: UNEP
Slide 24: Water Purification
Water Purification For personal use only The use of sand for water filtration dates back 1000s of years Running water through filters of tightly packed sand and gravel can rid it of filth and bacteria
Slide 25: Super Sand
Super Sand For personal use only Coating Sand “Super Sand” High capacity removal of: Organic molecules (dyes, pesticides etc.) Heavy metals Absorption (mercury etc.)
Slide 26: Improved performance by chemical tailoring
Improved performance by chemical tailoring Sand Column For personal use only loaded Graphene with coating super sand Pollutant Solution in “Super Sand” Sand core/support Clean Water out Media attention for this work:
Slide 27: Thin graphene films as nano-scale sieves
Thin graphene films as nano-scale sieves 10 nanometres SEM picthenofa thin film (1000x smaller human hair) For personal use only 47 mm disk High flux (thin film) High retention (dense) Scalable synthesis
Slide 28: Graphene as an anti-corrosion coating
GRAPHENE AS AN ANTI-CORROSION COATING For personal use only 2 2 Normalized intensity Normalized intensity 1.5 1.5 1 mm 1 mm 1 1 2D 0.5 0.5 D G 0 0 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 Raman shift (cm-1) Raman shift (cm-1) Singh Raman, Ajayan Majumder* et al., “Prot
Slide 29: Droplet Liquid Crystalline Phase of Graphene Oxide
Droplet Liquid Crystalline Phase of Graphene Oxide For personal use only Implications in drug delivery, nanomedicine and production of spherical carbon for Li-anion battery anodes Tkacz et al. Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 6668-6671
Slide 30: Why we are in front
Why we are in front For personal use only • We have REVENUES from VXL graphite sales • Major shareholding in VXL – potentially worth a considerable amount • Well funded – cash in bank • Leaders in research • A lot more exciting developments are to be announced shortly regarding our Monash collaborat
Slide 31: Thank you
For personal use only Thank you From SER and the team from Monash University
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