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Global Graphene Group Named R&D 100 Award Finalist

DAYTON, OHIO, January 16, 2020 – Global Graphene Group (G3) was honored recently by R&D World, naming G3’s graphene-protected lithium metal anode for rechargeable metal batteries solution (HELiX™) a finalist for the 2019 R&D 100 Award. The R&D 100 Awards recognize the top 100 most technologically significant new products of the year.

HELiX is a single-layer graphene-protected lithium metal technology making high-energy rechargeable metal batteries viable. It allows extremely low anode usage (anode/cathode ratio ≤ 10%), creating an energy density over 350 Wh/kg and 1,000 Wh/L, which yields a 60-80% improvement over current lithium-ion batteries. This offers unprecedented opportunities for advanced portable devices/electric vehicles.

HELiX is a readily available, drop-in, graphene-enabled anode solution for all types of high-energy, lithium metal batteries (e.g. advanced Li-ion, all solid-state batteries, Li-S, Li-Se, and Li-air cells). It adds immediate value to any rechargeable battery, including, but not limited to power drones, renewable energy storage systems, aerospace applications, unmanned vehicles, and electric vehicles (EVs). Additionally, due to its performance, batteries can be reduced in size by 30-40% while still providing the required energy. This provides room for other components or allows for significant reductions in size and weight.  The most promising opportunity for HELiX graphene-enabled anode solutions is in EV batteries, where it can replace incumbent (graphite) technology today and drive an accelerated adoption of EVs due to improved cost and performance.

“Rechargeable lithium metal batteries for next-generation portable devices and EVs must meet several challenging requirements: safety, high energy density, long cycle life, and low cost. This is the end-goal laid out by nearly every EV manufacturer for the foreseeable future,” said Dr. Aruna Zhamu, VP of New Product / Process Development at G3.

“Global Graphene Group has developed an enabling anode-protecting technology that is essential to successful operation of safe, high-energy and long-cycle-life lithium metal batteries working with liquid, quasi-solid, or solid electrolytes,” continued Dr. Zhamu. “This HELiX product has overcome the long-standing issues thus far impeding successful commercialization of all the rechargeable batteries that make use of lithium metal as the anode material. Our HELiX technology is available and offers a drop-in, scalable, facile, cost reducing improvement over current solutions. It lowers the battery cost to less than $100 US $/kWh.”

G3 developed and produces the HELiX solution in its Dayton, Ohio, facilities.

G3 was named an R&D 100 winner in 2018 for its graphene-enabled silicon anode (GCATM).

About the R&D 100
Since 1963, the R&D 100 Awards program has identified and celebrated the top 100 revolutionary technologies of the past year. Submitting your product or process to be considered by our panel of expert judges could earn it a place among an amazing group of finalists and winners from the last 56 years. Past R&D 100 Awards recipients include established Fortune 500 companies and federally funded research institutions, as well as academic and government labs and smaller companies. Their leading products, technologies and services will make a difference in a wide range of industries and together represent a bright future for science and innovation in the years to come.

About Global Graphene Group
Global Graphene Group, Inc. (G3) is a leading material science technology company focused on graphene. It has an award-winning, best-in-class intellectual property portfolio with more than 430 patents and applications. In addition, G3 holds many of the world’s firsts in graphene-related breakthroughs. G3, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is the holding company for five subsidiaries: Nanotek Instruments is the Intellectual Property arm of G3 with more than 170 issued U.S. patents. Taiwan Graphene Company is the largest volume producer of graphene globally. It is focused on high volume production of graphene raw materials, enhanced thermal interface materials (films, pastes, inks), and nanocomposite products (both thermoplastics and thermosets). Honeycomb Battery is focused on commercializing next generation lithium ion battery electrodes, batteries enhanced with graphene, and improved battery manufacturing processes. Angstron Materials is the R&D and product application company. Angstron Energy Company produces graphene-wrapped nano silicon particles to improve anode stability, prelithiation to reduce capacity loss, significant cost reduction in cost of goods, and an operational pilot line with 25 TPA capacity in the US.

Media Contact:
Amy Maggart – Corporate Communications Administrator
Global Graphene Group
Tel: (937) 331-9884 ext. 10
[email protected]

G3 COO John Davis Part of Dayton Business Journal Executive Roundtable

Global Graphene Group (G3) COO John Davis recently participated in an Executive Roundtable hosted by the Dayton Business Journal. Leaders from Dayton area manufacturers met to discuss challenges and trends in their industries. A series of articles will be published from the meeting. The first article focused on the impact the economy has on manufacturers and the outlook going into 2020 and beyond. Davis offered that Global Graphene Group forecasts continued growth in 2020, noting that “we’re seeing a lot of opportunity.” 

Look for future articles including Davis in the Dayton Business Journal’s Executive Roundtable linked on the G3 website. 

Global Graphene Group Adding a Registered Patent Agent to Team

DAYTON, OHIO, November 5, 2019 – Intellectual property is at the core of Global Graphene Group, Inc.’s success as a leader in the graphene industry. Global Graphene Group (G3) drives innovation in graphene manufacturing processes, from filing the first patent on graphene in 2002 to today’s expansive IP portfolio of 430 U.S. patents and 150 international patents and counting. Kurt Jacobs, an Intellectual Property Engineer at G3, recently passed the U.S.P.T.O Registration exam, commonly known as the patent bar. This will enable him to practice in patent cases before the Patent and Trademark Office. The patent bar is a difficult exam, with a pass rate of 47.2% in 2018*. Jacobs will now be able to file and prosecute patent applications, and draft patent applications for the company.

“Global Graphene Group’s R&D scientists average six to ten patent applications filed per month,” says Bob Crouch, G3’s Director of Intellectual Property. “I am excited to have Kurt’s role at G3 expand to handle more of our company’s patent work. Kurt worked very hard to study for this exam, and passing the exam is a great personal accomplishment for him.”

“I have been very fortunate to find these opportunities at G3, being able to work on both the R&D, and IP sides of the business has given me an exciting insight into the forefront of the industry,” says Kurt Jacobs. “It is exciting to have a role in the development and protection of our technology. And it is exciting to see what will happen next.”

Jacobs, a 2017 Ohio State University alumnus, received a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering before joining Global Graphene Group. He has worked as an engineer at G3 since 2017, developing and scaling a continuous graphene oxide production method, in research and development for graphene applications and working on G3’s silicon anode production. He transitioned to G3’s Intellectual Property team in October 2018.

 *USPTO 

About Global Graphene Group

Global Graphene Group, Inc. (G3) is a leading material science technology company focused on graphene. It has an award-winning, best-in-class intellectual property portfolio with more than 430 patents (approved and pending). In addition, G3 holds many of the world’s firsts in graphene-related breakthroughs. G3, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, is the holding company for five subsidiaries: Nanotek Instruments is the Intellectual Property arm of G3 with more than 430 issued U.S. patents. Taiwan Graphene Company is the largest volume producer of graphene globally. It is focused on high volume production of graphene raw materials, enhanced thermal interface materials (films, pastes, inks), and nanocomposite products (both thermoplastics and thermosets). Honeycomb Battery is focused on commercializing next generation lithium ion battery electrodes, batteries enhanced with graphene, and improved battery manufacturing processes. Angstron Materials is the R&D and product application company. Angstron Energy Company produces graphene-wrapped nano silicon particles to improve anode stability, prelithiation to reduce capacity loss, significant cost reduction in cost of goods, and an operational pilot line with 50 TPA capacity in the US.

Media Contact:
Amy Maggart – Corporate Communications Administrator
Global Graphene Group
Tel: (937) 331-9884 ext: 10
[email protected]

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G3 Welcomes Visit From Engineers’ Club Group

G3 Welcomes Visit From Engineers’ Club Group

Global Graphene Group welcomed 16 members of the Dayton Engineers’ Club’s Barn Gang to our Dayton facilities yesterday afternoon. The Barn Gang is comprised of retired engineers, and they meet regularly to tour area companies. G3’s John Davis, Dr. Aruna Zhamu and Stuart Blair presented to the group about what graphene is, it’s trajectory in commercialization and Global Graphene Group at a high level.

The Barn Gang was full of great questions and were very interested in graphene’s potential applications. The group toured our thermal labs and discussed our thermal film production both here in Dayton and in Taiwan. The group learned about our graphene-silicon anode production and our plans to increase it in 2020.

G3’s experts discussed our masterbatches and composites, showing off the graphene-infused ECD lacrosse heads we produced last year. The group toured our Quality Lab and discussed our recent ISO re-certification. We finished the tour with a walk through our battery prototyping center and 3,000 square feet of dry rooms.

“Global Graphene Group was proud to host the Engineers’ Club Barn Gang,” said Dr. Aruna Zhamu, G3 co-founder. “Considering Dayton’s history of innovation in engineering, the Barn Gang was very interested in graphene’s applications and how it will change the world.”

“We were excited to welcome the Barn Gang to our Dayton facilities,” said John Davis, G3 COO. “Today’s tour is a great example of sharing the story of graphene and our company with the Dayton area. We are committed to expanding in the Dayton region as we continue to ramp up our commercial production.”