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Selling graphene by the ton

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 612–614 (2009)Cite this article

Small start-up companies are making large volumes of graphene, the world's thinnest material, for applications such as composites and electrodes.

The exceptional electrical properties of graphene were discovered only five years ago in experiments that involved manually peeling samples weighing picograms from bulk graphite4. Today the total production output of various flavours of graphene exceeds 15 tons per year, produced in more than 40,000 square feet of facilities, and this is set to increase to more than 200 tons per year within the next year or two. “We actually have a company asking the question right now, 'When will I get 5 tons?'” says Bor Jang, the chief executive officer of Angstron Materials, which is based in Dayton, Ohio. “We can't produce enough.”

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Segal, M. Selling graphene by the ton. Nature Nanotech 4, 612–614 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.279

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