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“It’s a nano material. It’s super thin. You work very hard to break this down into atomic layers. Unless you’re using a surfactant, unless you’re mixing it in right away into a polymer or a product, if you just let it sit there, it will tend to bunch up together again and kind of reform graphite to some degree.”
To that end, Zen intends to produce master batches of alloys or polymers that have a prescribed amount of graphene already combined into them.
“If we can create a master batch at a very high loading of graphene in it already dispersed properly, then all [customers] have to do is take this, mix it with their material, bring it down to the right percentage in the end product. Depending on the product, you’ll want one per cent or 0.5 per cent or 0.1 per cent – it’s different for different products, but it tends to be a very low number. If I can get you a product that has 20 per cent graphene in it, and 80 per cent plastic, you’ll know how much to put in to get an end product that is going to have 0.5 [per cent] loading, and then you don’t have to worry about dispersion and all that, because we’ve already done that work for you.” |
