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ZEN Graphene Solutions’ Guelph processing facility.
ZEN Graphene Solutions to produce sample sizes for commercial market
The developer of a graphite mine near Hearst has cut the ribbon on a research and production facility in southern Ontario.
ZEN Graphene Solutions announced Feb. 4 of the grand opening of a Guelph-based small-scale pilot plant and R & D centre.
The company (formerly Zenyatta Ventures)
has high hopes for 2020 to enter the global market by delivering a
refined product for end users, and potentially strike some commercial
deals.
Over the years, ZEN has been developing the Albany Graphite Deposit
near the communities of Constance Lake First Nation and the Town of
Hearst.
At their site, 30 kilometres north of the Trans-Canada Highway, the
company discovered a very rare, highly purity graphite deposit that’s
estimated to have an open-pit mine life of 22 years and should produce
33,000 tonnes of graphite a year.
The project is at an advanced stage of exploration with an environmental assessment process underway.
Graphene is a highly prized carbon nanomaterial that has a multitude
of uses, including in electric vehicle batteries, high strength
concrete, water desalination membranes, and auto parts.
ZEN has been concentrating on potential applications in the fields of
transportation, aerospace, bio-medical, civil engineering and water
treatment.
The company has been working with the University of Guelph in
developing a proprietary process to convert graphite ore into
top-quality graphene oxide for high-end users.
They’ve been increasingly fielding requests from clients for larger
sample sizes. That led to ZEN making an arrangement last September with
Chemisar Laboratories to move into a 2,300-square-foot office and lab
space in Guelph by October.
This will serve as ZEN’s processing and production facility to ship
small sample batchers to users in industry and academia for research
purposes.
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Thunder Bay, Ontario–(February 4, 2020) – ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.(TSXV: ZEN) (“ZEN” or the “Company“)
is pleased to announce the grand opening of its Guelph facility for
small scale pilot plant production and Research and Development.
James Jordan will be leading the work at the facility and is promoted
to the position of Chief Operating Officer. In other company human
resource review, Colin van der Kuur is now our Head of Research while
Monique Manaigre becomes our Senior Government Relations and Account
Manager.
Shares for Debt Settlement
ZEN announces the issuance of shares in connection with its
previously announced shares for debt agreement with Alphabet Creative.
The Company issued 47,222 common shares at a deemed price of $0.36 per
common share in settlement of a debt of $17,000 owed by the Company. The
common shares issued in connection with the shares for debt agreement
will be subject to a hold period until May 1, 2020 in accordance with
applicable securities laws.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN is an emerging graphene technology solutions company with a focus
on the development of graphene-based nanomaterial products and
applications. The unique Albany Graphite Project provides the company
with a potential competitive advantage in the graphene market as
independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada have independently
demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany PureTM Graphite is an ideal precursor
material which easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene, using a variety
of mechanical, chemical and electrochemical methods.
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SPONSOR: ZEN Graphene Solutions: An emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada confirm this. Click here for more information
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SPONSOR: ZEN Graphene Solutions: An emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada confirm this. Click here for more information
Researchers at the India-based Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) are developing an economical graphene-based supercapacitor
that can present an effective alternative to providing energy to
various applications, including state-of-the-art military equipment,
mobile devices and modern vehicles.
Graphene has been used in the newly developed ultra-capacitors to
replace the expensive activated carbon, and the switch seems to have
also reduced the supercapacitors’ weight and cost by ten times.
The team has developed a new technique for making graphene oxide, which is being used to produce new ultra-capacitors.
CMERI scientist Dr. Naresh Chandra Murmu stated that “scientists have
developed a technique for producing graphene oxide. The production cost
of one kilogram of graphene oxide using this technique comes to around
ten thousand rupees, which is much lesser than the cost of activated
carbon used in supercapacitors. We have modified the surface of graphene
oxide in our research, due to which it has also succeeded in reducing
its weight. We have now reached the advanced stage of making
ultra-capacitors by using this graphene oxide, which can be useful in
various sectors.â€
Former Senior Defense Development Research Organization (DRDO)
official M.H. Rahman said that such devices not only cater to civilian
applications, but can be applicable in strategic and defense
applications as well.
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SPONSOR: ZEN Graphene Solutions: An emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada confirm this. Click here for more information
The battery race shows no sign of letting up, even though the gains
feel increasingly marginal. Whether it’s phones or portable consoles,
maximising the life eked out of a slim lithium-ion battery is getting
harder and harder.
For some time, graphene has been touted as one possible solution, a
material that hasn’t been efficiently harnessed yet but which could help
improve charging times and battery life in one fell swoop. Now Real
Graphene, a tech business from Los Angeles, is apparently preparing to
change that.
It has a range of portably power banks on
the market, and ambitious plans to crowdfund the wider production of
banks that go even further with their use of Graphene. For now, Real
Graphene’s banks come in two sizes, a 10,000mAh version and another with
20,000mAh, and have a number of apparent advantages over lithium banks.
For one thing, they charge far more quickly themselves, with the
smaller variant charging completely in 50 minutes, far less time than
the hours most banks need to power themselves up.
Graphene as a material is also extremely lightweight, so down the
line it could lead to lighter batteries, always a welcome change.
However, for now, even Real Graphene’s own batteries are not pure
graphene — they’re a blend of graphene and lithium which gains in speed
but remains affordable to build and sell.
Even so, the reality is that graphene-enhanced batteries will be more
expensive than current lithium equivalents, to the tune of a 30% bump
in cost at Real Graphene’s own estimation. That’s a sizeable leap, so it
shouldn’t be a huge surprise if the tech can’t make too many mainstream
waves until it’s even more affordable in comparison.
Definitive Graphene Manufacturing Process License Agreement–
This agreement licenses to ZEN the intellectual property created
by scientists and laboratories in collaboration with ZEN, and provides
that a royalty is payable by ZEN based on the annual amount of material
processed under the intellectual property.
Signed an 18-month
exclusive initial option agreement with the University of Guelph for
intellectual property regarding an electrochemical exfoliation (ECE)
process to produce Graphene Oxide.
Collaborative Research
Agreement (CRA) Template – Forms the basis of each agreement with
various UBC researchers and Universities.
Each contributing
significantly to unlocking the value of the Albany Graphite deposit and
creating a strong intellectual property foundation.
Graphene Aerogel Battery Development Program:
Coordinating with the German Aerospace Center–
A proprietary aerogel formulation containing
doping with either ZEN’s reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) or Graphene produced via
ZEN’s licensed process was tested. The unoptimized results are believed to be
better than those currently reported in the literature for Graphene Aerogel
batteries.
Graphene-containing aerogels could have the
potential to be a low-cost, low-weight, high-performance composite materials
for near future energy storage applications.
Results extremely positive, and DLR applied for
and received federal funding to create a new Innovation Lab (the Center
for Aerogels) to work with industrial partners on the development of Aerogels
and other graphene-based products.
Albany Graphite:
Significantly outperforms both flake/sedimentary graphite and
synthetic graphite, demonstrating the uniqueness of ZEN’s graphite and
its superior performance to exfoliate into graphene products.
ZEN
currently has an inventory of approximately 110 tonnes of
graphite-mineralized material with an average grade of 6% graphitic
carbon (Cg), 110 kilograms of 86% Cg material, 18 kilograms of 99.8% Cg,
and 300 grams of GO.
The Company will continue to process
material and manufacture graphene-related products on an as-needed basis
for research and development (R&D) and marketing
ZEN’s is
developing a proposed webstore which has an anticipated launch date in
the first quarter of 2020, for which it is developing an inventory in
advance of sales.
Graphene-Enhanced Materials for Next-Level Performance.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. is an emerging advanced materials and
graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure
graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage
relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor
materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK,
Israel, USA and Canada have demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany
Graphite/Naturally PureTM easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene,
using a variety of simple mechanical and chemical methods.
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ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) (“ZEN” or the “Company“)
has closed its previously announced private placement of flow-through
common shares of the company and reports that it was oversubscribed. The
company raised $1.21-million in respect of the offering, which will be
used to finance the 2020 environmental baseline field program and
community engagement work on the company’s Albany graphite project.
The offering consisted of the issuance of 3.025 million flow-through
common shares at a price of 40 cents per flow-through common share for
aggregate gross proceeds of $1.21 million. Finders’ fees in an aggregate
amount of $54,840 were paid by the company in connection to the
offering.
The flow-through common shares issued in connection with the offering
will be subject to a hold period until April 20, 2020, in accordance
with applicable securities laws.
Graphene Production and Graphene Oxide Research Update
The Company is moving forward with graphene production and
anticipates that small-scale graphene related production will commence
before the end of Q1 2020. The first batch of equipment for the
purification small-scale pilot plant was delivered this week. In the
coming months, ZEN is aiming to setup small-scale graphite purification
and graphene-related production facilities including Graphene Quantum
Dots (GQDs) and Graphene Oxide (GO). These products will be available
for research and development, application development and for commercial
use.
In addition, the Company reports that Prof. Aicheng Chen and his team
at the University of Guelph was recently awarded a $310,000, three-year
NSERC CRD grant to continue developing an environmentally friendly and
commercially scalable electrochemical process to produce GO and GQDs.
ZEN looks forward to continuing its strong collaborative relationship
with Prof. Chen and his team.
Graphene in Aluminum Products $450,000 Alliance Grant
The Company together with an industrial collaborator in the aluminum
business are jointly supporting a Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council (“NSERC”) Alliance grant application by Dr. Lukas
Bichler, a materials engineer from the University of British Columbia in
Okanagan. This application followed promising results earlier this year
where Dr. Bichler and his team used ZEN’s graphene products in aluminum
alloys. NSERC recently approved the $450,000, three-year Alliance
grant. ZEN looks forward to working with its aluminum industrial
collaborator and Dr. Bichler to create innovative aluminum products for
the automotive industry.
Environmental Baseline Program Update
The Company reports that in late November, the first full open water
field season for the environmental baseline program for the Albany
Project came to a successful close. All the program objectives were met
with a wide range of data collected over a period of eight months. The
collected data initiates the physical and biological characterization of
the site needed for project development planning and regulatory
permitting. ZEN is working closely with ERM Canada Ltd.’s (“ERM”) team
of scientists, biologists, and engineers. Members from the Constance
Lake First Nation (“CLFN”) were also important members of the field
teams providing local knowledge and supported the process of data
collection (click here
to see CLFN videos of the various field activities). ERM is leading the
desktop and fieldwork associated with this program on behalf of ZEN.
ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety,
social and sustainability consulting services with over three decades of
experience in the Canadian mining industry.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN is an emerging graphene technology solutions company with a focus
on the development of graphene-based nanomaterial products and
applications. The unique Albany Graphite Project provides the company
with a potential competitive advantage in the graphene market as
independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada have independently
demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany Graphite/Naturally PureTM is an ideal
precursor material which easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene, using
a variety of mechanical, chemical and electrochemical methods.
Definitive Graphene Manufacturing Process License Agreement–
This agreement licenses to ZEN the intellectual property created by scientists and laboratories in collaboration with ZEN, and provides that a royalty is payable by ZEN based on the annual amount of material processed under the intellectual property.
Signed an 18-month exclusive initial option agreement with the University of Guelph for intellectual property regarding an electrochemical exfoliation (ECE) process to produce Graphene Oxide.
Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) Template – Forms the basis of each agreement with various UBC researchers and Universities.
Each contributing significantly to unlocking the value of the Albany Graphite deposit and creating a strong intellectual property foundation.
Graphene Aerogel Battery Development Program:
Coordinating with the German Aerospace Center–
A proprietary aerogel formulation containing
doping with either ZEN’s reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) or Graphene produced via
ZEN’s licensed process was tested. The unoptimized results are believed to be
better than those currently reported in the literature for Graphene Aerogel
batteries.
Graphene-containing aerogels could have the
potential to be a low-cost, low-weight, high-performance composite materials
for near future energy storage applications.
Results extremely positive, and DLR applied for
and received federal funding to create a new Innovation Lab (the Center
for Aerogels) to work with industrial partners on the development of Aerogels
and other graphene-based products.
Albany Graphite:
Significantly outperforms both flake/sedimentary graphite and synthetic graphite, demonstrating the uniqueness of ZEN’s graphite and its superior performance to exfoliate into graphene products.
ZEN currently has an inventory of approximately 110 tonnes of graphite-mineralized material with an average grade of 6% graphitic carbon (Cg), 110 kilograms of 86% Cg material, 18 kilograms of 99.8% Cg, and 300 grams of GO.
The Company will continue to process material and manufacture graphene-related products on an as-needed basis for research and development (R&D) and marketing
ZEN’s is developing a proposed webstore which has an anticipated launch date in the first quarter of 2020, for which it is developing an inventory in advance of sales.
Graphene-Enhanced Materials for Next-Level Performance.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. is an emerging advanced materials and graphene development company with a focus on new solutions using pure graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Our competitive advantage relies on the unique qualities of our multi-decade supply of precursor materials in the Albany Graphite Deposit. Independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada have demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany Graphite/Naturally PureTM easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene, using a variety of simple mechanical and chemical methods.
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Thunder Bay, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – November 14, 2019) – ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV:ZEN) (“ZEN” or the “Company“) has signed the definitive graphene manufacturing process License Agreement referred to in a news release on May 30, 2019. This
agreement licenses to ZEN the intellectual property created by
scientists and laboratories within a renowned Canadian University. This
agreement has no expiry date and provides that a royalty is payable by
ZEN based on the annual amount of material processed under the
intellectual property.
The
company also reports that it has signed an 18-month exclusive initial
option agreement with the University of Guelph (Guelph) for intellectual
property regarding an electrochemical exfoliation (ECE) process to
produce Graphene Oxide. In addition, the University of British Columbia
(UBC) and ZEN have begun negotiating a Collaborative Research Agreement
(CRA) template that will form the basis of each agreement with various
UBC researchers. Neither Guelph nor UBC is party to the definitive
agreement mentioned above.
The
definitive License Agreement took effect November 1, 2019 and
subsequently ZEN has begun investing in certain equipment required under
this process. ZEN anticipates that the equipment will be installed
during Q1 2020 at its Guelph location thereby allowing the Company to
start production of this graphene product for market development and
subsequent sale.
The
exclusive agreement with Guelph results from research and development
by Prof. Aicheng Chen and his group. Early results from this process are
very encouraging with Albany Graphite significantly outperforming both
flake/sedimentary graphite and synthetic graphite, demonstrating again
the uniqueness of ZEN’s graphite and its superior performance to
exfoliate into graphene products.
Several
researchers at UBC Okanagan continue to work with ZEN’s material in
multiple areas including the synthesis of Graphene Quantum Dots and
Graphene Oxide, along with multiple applications including battery
anodes, polymers, aluminum, concrete, coatings, and others. Given that
collaboration amongst UBC researchers is expected, this intellectual
property template should accelerate the science by eliminating
repetitive negotiation with each research team at UBC. ZEN will report
on material final agreements with UBC as they are executed.
About ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd.
ZEN
is an emerging graphene technology solutions company with a focus on
the development of graphene-based nanomaterial products and
applications. The unique Albany Graphite Project provides the company
with a competitive advantage in the potential graphene market as
independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada have independently
demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany Graphite/Naturally PureTM is an ideal
precursor material which easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene, using
a variety of mechanical, chemical and electrochemical methods.
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Reporting on additional results from battery development program led by Dr. Lukas Bichler and his team at the University of British Columbia
Created a Graphene Aerogel composite anode material using a proprietary aerogel formulation containing doping with either ZEN’s reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) or Graphene (produced via ZEN’s licensed process
Results are believed to be better than those currently reported in the literature for Graphene Aerogel batteries
Thunder Bay, Ontario–(November 1, 2019) – ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) (“ZEN” or the “Company“) and its research partner, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (“DLR“, the German Aerospace Center) are pleased to report on additional encouraging results from their battery development program led by Dr. Lukas Bichler and his team at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (UBC-O). UBC-O has created a Graphene Aerogel composite anode material using a proprietary aerogel formulation containing doping with either ZEN’s reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) or Graphene (produced via ZEN’s licensed process announced in the company’s May 30, 2019 news release). Preliminary results indicate that relatively low loadings (<5 wt.%) of graphene-based material, combined with this proprietary aerogel structure, can result in an anode with a significant specific discharge capacity. Preliminary best results were achieved with a 2 wt.% loading of Graphene dispersed in aerogel and resulted in an initial specific discharge capacity of 2800 mAh/g and a discharge capacity of 1300 mAh/g after 50 cycles at a current capacity of 186 mA/g. These unoptimized results are believed to be better than those currently reported in the literature for Graphene Aerogel batteries. DLR and ZEN will present a poster of the battery results at the Batterieforum in Berlin, Germany in January 2020. Graphene-containing aerogels could have the potential to be a low-cost, low-weight, high-performance composite materials for near future energy storage applications.
DLR has applied for and received federal funding from the Helmholtz
Association to create a new Helmholtz Innovation Lab, called ZAIT, or
the Center for Aerogels in Industry and Technology, which will be
working together with industrial partners on the development of
Aerogels. ZEN supported this application with a letter of intent
indicating the Company would continue to collaborate with DLR in
developing graphene-based aerogel batteries and other graphene-based
products.
ZEN is an emerging graphene technology solutions company with a focus
on the development of graphene-based nanomaterial products and
applications. The unique Albany Graphite Project provides the company
with a competitive advantage in the potential graphene market as
independent labs in Japan, UK, Israel, USA and Canada have independently
demonstrated that ZEN’s Albany Graphite/Naturally PureTM is an ideal
precursor material which easily converts (exfoliates) to graphene, using
a variety of mechanical, chemical and electrochemical methods.
