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Making graphene by the tonne

08 Apr 2019 Margaret Harris
This article first appeared in the 2019 Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials under the headline "Graphene by the tonne"

Ultrapure graphene is grown in labs under carefully controlled conditions, but Mark Thompson believes that exploiting the material’s properties on a large scale requires a different approach. Here, he explains how his company, Talga Resources, went from prospecting for gold to developing processes for manufacturing graphene in bulk

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Process improvement: Talga managing director Mark Thompson at the company’s test processing facility in Rudolstadt, Germany. (Courtesy: Steve Wise, 27Creative)
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