UK Company to exhibit the first UK produced Nano enabled Graphene production ready components to be launched into the global market in 2012
Haydale, a wholly owned subsidiary of British company Innovative Carbon Limited today announces that they will be exhibiting at Graphene 2012 from 10th April to 13th.
Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, first isolated at Manchester University in 2004 has been described as the new wonder material. The UK Government, through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), will invest £50m to stimulate Graphene research and to facilitate early commercialisation of graphene technologies.
The major players in this industry will be gathering at the Graphene Flagship International Conference in Brussels this week. Haydale, based in South Wales will exhibit its collaboratively produced prototype range of Graphene enabled materials and intermediate components. These include transparent conductive membranes, graphene loaded polymer pellets and graphene loaded sprayable barrier paint. Haydales unique patented plasma based technology, enables the scaleable, dry, environmentally friendly, exfoliation and purification of single and few layer friable Graphene containing powders known as Graphene Nano Platelets (GNPs) from mined graphite crystals.
Haydale has a customer portfolio of more than 100 major Global Blue Chip companies, Universities and research institutions and now offers a range of GNPs and other nano materials to the open market under the HDPlas™ brand. Haydales USA agent for HDPlas™ plasma processed nano structures is Cheaptubes Inc. www.cheaptubes.com
To stimulate further collaboration with leading industrial players and to demonstrate the disperseability of its branded HDPlas™ friable functionalised GNPs, Haydale will also donate one hundred samples of its nano powders to suitable research students and industrial researchers. Haydales team of scientists and engineers will be available to help, advise, and discuss bulk supply, potential applications and collaborative exploitation opportunities. (www.hdplas.com )
Haydale, to meet demand for its HDPlas range of Nano materials are currently engaged in fitting out a new purpose built “state of the art” nano safe commercial production facility and nano safe laboratory analysis and characterisation suite. Haydale is now able to supply HDPlas™ from stock in grams or kilos and is ready and able to take orders for tonnes to agreed delivery dates.
“We acknowledge that GNPs, Graphene and micro graphite are not magic powders and their ease of use and potential, similar to Carbon Nano Tubes, is real but has a tendency to be the victim of market hype.
From our detailed and exhaustive research we know that materials in the Nano scale are notoriously difficult and challenging to effectively disperse and bond within a target component or matrix. The trick is to balance the complexities of utilising particles with massive surface areas along with the precise nano surface chemical engineering of such particles that is required to achieve the desired dispersal/percolation levels and rheology necessary. Getting this right enables materials like Graphene to be effectively exploited and Haydale is equipped to meet these challenges” says Business Development Director and Inventor Ian Walters.
Haydales intellectual property is held within its parent company Innovative Carbon Ltd. Representatives will be available to discuss the licensing of laboratory and production scale patented Diener Haydale NanoPlas Plasma Reactors (www.plasma.de ) that can be purpose built to purify, functionalise and decorate a wide range of nano particles.
Critically, organisations can now use the HDPlas™ product range for collaborative product prototyping and analysis. Haydale offers expertise in running pilot trials to evaluate the effect their friable GNPs have on the client’s materials and products and crucially assessing their suitability for large scale production. The key to take up is to know that commercial quantities will be then available.
Commenting, Chairman Tony Belisario said:
“We are all very excited by the opportunity our patented process offers as a critical element of material replacement for enhanced performance of a vast array of potential applications.
The market is looking for ways of using the new wonder material Graphene and we believe we have the process that can now make the commercial quantities required by global companies. The cutting edge technology has been peer reviewed and we can now do “what it says on the tin”. We have proved we can personalise solutions to a clients specific needs in a cost effective, environmentally friendly and innovative way. Graphene 2012 is a perfect place to launch our technology and we expect significant interest in Haydale.”
HDPlas™ is the brand name for Split- Plasma treated carbon and other nano materials from Haydale. The HDPlas online superstore has now been launched.
The split-plasma process is protected by a portfolio of Intellectual property owned and maintained by Innovative carbon Ltd (ICL). ICL is available to discuss and implement joint IP exploitation strategies.
Haydales split plasma process is significantly quicker, substantially more cost efficient and environmentally friendly when compared with current ³wet² reflux methods that universally employ acid based processes that inevitably damage the structural integrity and hence negatively affect the potential mechanical strength and transport properties of the carbon-based powders.
More importantly the split plasma process offers the chemical engineer a set of tools that will aid in overcoming the almost impossible task of tailoring by type and by volume the nano surface attached functional groups required to aid dispersion and facilitate covalent bonding within the host matrix.
To this end, Haydale are now able to offer a range of GNP's and other nano materials with various functionalities and various levels of surface functionalisation inhabitation.
Critically organizations can then test material, run pilot trials to evaluate technology and products they are developing knowing that if they are suited to commercial production the volumes are available. The supply of volume, quality GNPs is an issue which Haydale, can now deal with and unlock the potential of graphene and other carbon-based nano materials