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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Dr. Peter Simpson to assume role of Associate VP for SGPS
Prof. Peter Simpson will assume the role of Associate Vice-Provost for the School fo Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) starting in July, 2012.
Peter will have primary responsibility for graduate programs in the Faculties of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and Dentistry, as well as for postdoctoral scholars.
Air Gun Seismology
A group of researchers in China have developed a way to use air guns in earthquake research. Setting off the devices triggers seismic waves that can be studied to learn more about the underlying rock formations. This should be particularly useful in fault regions.
Dr. Gordon Osinski named acting Director of CPSX for next six months.
Dr Gordon Osinski will be the acting Director of the Centre for Planetary Science and Space Exploration for the period Jan. 1, 2012 until June 30, 2012.
Dark Side of the Moon
NASA’s GRAIL mission has recently returned its first pictures from the far side of the moon. The mission is connected with an outreach project designed to interest American elementary school students in science, space and space exploration.
Credit: NASA
Gravitational Lens = Magnifying Glass
This stunning picture is what resulted when a group of astronomers and NASA pointed the Hubble Space Telescopeat a galaxy 10 billion light-years away. Its remarkable clarity is because of a relativistic effect called gravitational lensing, which in this case really acts like a magnifying glass. The galaxy in question, in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623, is the brightest distant magnified galaxy ever seen, and is very actively forming stars.
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Rigby, K. Sharon
Wheeled vehicles seen hovering over the P&A Building! #westernu.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street…
Looking for that favourite astronomy app?
So many out there; linked is a list someone put together to make the choice more informed:
http://www.iphoneness.com/iphone-apps/top-astronomy-applications-for-iphone/
Black Holes helping stars form?
An interesting article – http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202094328.htm
Stories on carbon-based nanomaterials – Graphene companies
Here is a list of companies involved in transfering graphene from the World of Physics into real life…
From http://www.graphene-info.com/companies
Angstron Materials
Angstron Materials (owned by Nanotek Instruments and based in Ohio, USA) is developing and producing nano graphene platelets (NGPs), and also provide pristine graphite and single layer graphene.
In June 2011 the company announced a spin-off called Angstron Supercapacitor that will produce a new supercapacitor electrode material made from Graphene.
| Dec 18, 2009 |
CVD Equipment
CVD Equipment Corporation (based in Long Island, NY, USA) offers a variety of process and support equipment, for both R&D and production facilities. CVD is working together with Graphene Laboratories to offer Graphene materials and other services.
| Dec 01, 2010 |
Durham
Durham Graphene Science (DGS) is an R&D company that specializes in the synthesis of Graphene. The company uses a unique and scalable ‘bottom-up’ approach to prepare Graphene that is protected by a patent application. The company was founded by Dr. Karl Coleman from Durham University.
| Nov 12, 2010 |
GrafTech
GrafTech International is a global company with more than 120 years of experience in the carbon and graphite industry. GrafTech makes an expanded natural graphite foil that keeps most of the properties of the Graphene (thermal, electrical, and possibly acoustic) and they manufacture them in flexible sheets from 20um to 1mm thick and in widths up to about 50 inches.
GrafTech say that their graphite-foil is used in the iPhone, the new Samsung 3D TVs, and a lot of other phones and devices.
| Jun 01, 2010 |
GRAnPH Nanotech
GRAnPH Nanotech (based in Spain) is a provider of single-layer graphene products and other carbon based nanostructures and nanocomposites. GRAnPH developed their own patented technology for producing graphene, based on research by Grupo Antolin-Ingenieria and the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Alicante in Spain.
The company offers its products in their on-line store.
| Sep 06, 2011 |
Graphene Devices
Graphene Devices, founded in 2009 and based in Niagara Falls US is a startup that explores novel uses for Graphene and ways to optimize its production. The company is using a process developed at the University of Buffalo.
Graphene Devices has been awarded with over $600,000 in several projects in 2010 by the US federal and state authorities.
| Sep 24, 2010 |
Graphene Energy
Graphene Energy are working towards next generation nano-technology based Ultracapacitors for energy storage that will have at least twice the storage capacity of commercially available ultracapacitors. Their technology utilizes Graphene for electrode material.
| Jun 25, 2009 |
Graphene Frontiers
Graphene Frontiers is a new startup established in 2011 based on new graphene-production technology developed at the University of Pennsylvania.
| Oct 22, 2011 |
Graphene Industries
Graphene Industries is a spin-out company incorporated in March 2007 to capitalise on the advances made by Professor Andre Geim’s research group at Manchester University in the UK.
Graphene Industries is a commercial suppliers of graphene for micro- and nanoelectronic fabrication and research.
| Jun 25, 2009 |
Graphene Laboratories
Graphene Laboratories is developing and marketing functional Graphene materials and devices. The company collaborates with CVD Equipment. The company also operates the Graphene Supermarket web site which offers online graphene related products.
| Aug 03, 2011 |
Graphene Supermarket
Graphene Supermarket offers a broad range of graphene nanomaterials including CVD grown graphene on foils and wafers, Q-Graphene, graphene nanopowder, graphene oxide, graphene in solution, and reduced graphene oxide. Graphene Supermarket is operated by Graphene Laboratories.
You can order the Graphene production online, at Graphene Supermarket’s site.
| Sep 20, 2010 |
Graphenea
Graphenea is a private European company (based in Spain) focused on the production of high quality graphene for industrial applications. The company produces Monolayer Graphene Sheets, Bilayer Graphene Sheets, Multilayer Graphene Sheets, Graphene Nanosheets, Graphene Nanoplatelets and Customized Graphene.
| Sep 08, 2011 |
Harbin Mulan Foreign Economic And Trade
Harbin Mulan, based in China and established in 2000, is engaged in the sale of carbon and graphite materials. They are providing monolayer flake graphene oxide, monolayer graphene ultra-fine powder, graphene nanoplatelets, graphene oxide membrane (thin film), graphene solution (dispersible in water, DMF solvent), carboxyl graphene, aminated graphene and thiol graphene.