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Hi Kelly and Colleagues,<br>
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Pleased to see you are excited about discovering the secrets that
our char making processes can manifest. Graphite structures were
observed in our gasification waste char back about 1978-9, but what
you call graphene was suggested to us as being fullerine carbon.
Like yourselves, a number of different researchers have identified
potential to use these carbons, but need funding to pursue their
research. Producing a commercially pure product may have challenges,
especially competing against existing suppliers, probably more
difficult than selling gasifiers(:-) <br>
<br>
The <span style="font-size:12.8px"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6271">Raman spectroscopy
data </a></span>was done here in New Zealand and some 40
samples analyzed if I remember correctly. I have the original Paper
on file on file if anyone is interested to obtain a copy. <br>
<br>
You can see some early photos "Carbon Blacks" November 2008, and the
later "Char and Graphitic Soot" December 2011 in the files of the
Fluidyne Archive. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com/">http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com/</a><br>
<br>
Hope this may be of interest.<br>
<br>
Doug Williams,<br>
Fluidyne.<br>
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On 21/06/16 07:58, Kelly Burnham wrote:
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Folks,</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Just
wanted to put the word out on some recent and <i>exciting </i>developments
at Proton Power.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In
order to further characterize of our biochar, a</span><font
face="tahoma, sans-serif"> member </font><span
style="font-size:12.8px">of our material science team
(formerly with Oak Ridge National Labs), was analyzing <a
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href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6271">Raman spectroscopy
data</a> and noticed pronounced spikes, suggesting the
presence of graphite and </span><b
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gigaom.com/2013/07/15/what-is-graphene-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-a-material-that-could-be-the-next-silicon/">graphene</a></b><span
style="font-size:12.8px">.</span>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>
</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Further</span><span
style="font-size:12.8px"> research with ORNL is planned
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">and </div>
at a retail price if $100/gram
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">for
graphene, </div>
it's bound to generate some interest in Proton's unique
gasification technology.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">Also
recently,</div>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">a
medical</div>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">
researcher </div>
report
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">ed</div>
that they
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">exposed </div>
our
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">bio</div>
char
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">to </div>
a laser and the material
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">
responded by </div>
curling
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into tubular shapes,
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">similar
to </div>
'nanotubes'
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline">Please
feel free to contact me directly if there's any interest on
the aforementioned developments</div>
<br>
Thanks,
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Kelly</div>
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