All products I've got an overview on didn't accomplish any improvement through graphene so far. The companys always claim to achieve lighter/stronger parts using graphene, but in reality these products are just as light/strong as every other product of the same quality. In my opinion the trend to graphene label carbon products is already well past it's peak. As long as nobody shows significant improvements in the final product with graphene I think the use for graphene powder will stay where it is right now. At least for composites.

Stocking of products depends a lot on demand.  At present, in the market we serve, there is very little.  Expense is not always a limiting factor.  Some materials and resins are by their nature, relatively expensive but where there is demand, the cost is not always a limiting factor. For example, board sealers are very expensive, and despite trying to source them as cheaply as we can, they still end up being an expensive product, but there is a set number of relatively limited used where that product works very well and hence a demand for it. 

I am not sure where that demand lies yet with graphene.   Certainly if we were being regularly asked for it, it would be a product we investigate further into sourcing. where appropriate.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Hi Warren.

Is expense the limiting factor for your business where adopting graphene is concerned, if so what price per kilo would I 
need to realistically accomplish before companies such as Easy Composites would be willing to take graphene as a 
viable option?

Don't worry, I can't go about making business proposals, I only have the ability to produce 1 Kilo at a mad push fortnightly
so I'm going nowhere fast right now but it would be nice to have a target to fight for.

There have been a couple of members experimenting with it over the years, as well as carbon nano tubes etc.  However it is not in common usage yet.  We (as in EasyComposites) generally only hear about it through student and other industry research


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

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