By VostokNI - 8/4/2018 9:58:51 PM
Hi there, my names Noel Craig, I'm from Belfast in Northern Ireland and would like to ask the community here
about their experience with graphene as a potential additive in lightweight high strength composite
materials. Alternatively perhaps you have heard about the material but have been driven away by the
shocking cost of it.
I ask because it has been the subject of personal research along with nano materials for around two years now
and I have developed my own top down environmentally friendly and highly scale-able approach to it's production.
I am not here to sell my material but just to get an idea as to how common in usage the material has become.
Thanks
Noel
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By VostokNI - 8/7/2018 3:24:12 PM
The graphene I produce has flake dimensions ranging from 0.25 to 50 micron but
to make 50mm flakes would require an altogether different approach to manufacturing.
That would need to be a bottom up method rather than a top down
one.and the last I checked, 1x sheet of 50x50mm single layer graphene is going to
cost somewhere in the region of about £500.
So for now, I'd have to conclude that graphene in powder form may not have the ability to improve
carbon fiber manufacturing enough to make it worth while but then this was not the sole composite
that sprung to mind either, there are others, particularly composites requiring high temperatures
such as ceramics.
As for what I can do right now, is to use it in thermal compounds and electronics.
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