Why?Why are some posters on the FMS board so enamored by Grafoid?
When proper research is done Grafoid appears as a small contender in the big grapheme world:
The University of Manchester is one of the earliest research institutes to explore the advantages of graphene:
https://www.physics.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/research-impact/graphene/
Some statements from the above website:
R&D on this revolutionary material continues apace with
more than $2.4 billion in funding committed globally.
Novel graphene-based technologies are being developed by many multinational companies, for example IBM, Samsung, BASF, Nokia, SanDisk and Fujitsu. The first pioneering products have already reached the market.
The growing demand for graphene has prompted production volumes to increase, hence reducing unit costs
. More than 55 companies worldwide have invested $200-m to scale up graphene manufacturing.
From the Samsung website:
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-graphene-364824/
Companies like
Nokia, which invested $1.36 billion into graphene research last year, and schools like the University of Manchester, with £50 million from the UK and EU governments,
have nearly ten thousand patent applicationsfiled for graphene research. Even then, graphene requires a lot more innovation before it can be produced economically at scale.
Samsung’s breakthrough in graphene production helps overcome one of the major hurdles that has been preventing widespread adoption of graphene in electronics manufacturing. However, it is not mentioned what overall cost savings are expected, nor at what scale the new techniques will allow graphene to be produced. We’ll be anxiously awaiting the next steps that Samsung takes to bring graphene to the market.
My conclusion:
Grafoid is only a bit player with a paltry investment of only 8.1 million dollar from the Canadian Government, compared to the worldwide attempts to bring graphene to production with a global funding of more than 2.4 billion.
How many patent applications are filed by Grafoid? Anywhere near the ten thousand by others?
It is debatable if Grafoid will succeed to beat all these efforts.