to the fluffy fill in the blank crowd.

you know nothing. The pp funding coming soon will complete the multiple partner required testing. The good/wished -for sh news is hence, a year away, per Zed management plan.

Why don't you p.. off. You know nothing.

peter

This is a useful read.
Peter

"To satisfy the steel market alone, annual graphite demand is expected to rise 8% CAGR to 2020 from 1.1 million tonnes to 1.5 million tonnes. Batteries and high-tech application needs are projected to be dramatic enough to require a 600% increase in annual flake graphite production. Only flake graphite can be used in the over 200-known applications that require graphite as an additive and is the only natural form of graphite that can be used to make the spherical graphite used in lithium-ion batteries. Thus, purified, spherical graphite currently sells for between $4-6,000/tonne, more than twice the price of high quality flake graphite.  Furthermore, the British Geological Survey listed graphite, along with antimony and rare-earths, as most at risk of a global supply disruption."".   ---dec9/16,  Investorintel 

http://investorintel.com/technology-metals-intel/energizer-focus-madagascar-graphite-pays-off/

eom

"" Dr. Arao, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tokyo Tech, stated “Zenyatta’s high-purity graphite material was tested by our scientific team on mechanical conversion to graphene and discovered it converted much easier and with higher yields of graphene than our reference material. We have tested many types of natural graphite but found Zenyatta’s graphite material to have better exfoliation performance and produce better graphene particles than the reference material. We believe that this is an unique material and we would like to carry out further collaborative work with Zenyatta on graphene applications.”

Tokyo Tech is the top national university for science and technology in Japan with a history spanning more than 130 years. It is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, and is considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in Japan and the world.  Tokyo Tech continues to develop global leaders in the fields of science and technology, and contributes to the betterment of society through its research, focusing on solutions to global issues. The Institute's long-term goal is to become the world's leading science and technology university.""

from the NR.

Peter

Here's some DD for you. Your welcome. Please provide your attested/verified /cited  evidence of anything you state.

Its from Industrial Materials web site, may 2014 comparison of natural graphene vs synthetic.

Nothing more recent other than Zenyatta/israel NR's

The currently underway cement testing in Israel is the IM noted coming killer application.

There were no other such tests found in my search. CCC mentions not found; no attested commercial agreements.

Peter

Google IM search results:-graphene vs synthetic pricing comparison follows:-

"What about price?

One of the most talked-about points when it comes to graphene is price. Not just production costs, which until mass manufacturing methods are optimised will continue to be expensive, but also end-market prices, which will remain high until production costs come down.

Marinelli told IM that, in terms of natural versus synthetic graphene, he does not see much of a difference in price.

“In the long term, methods for producing powders are intrinsically scalable, so I can see less constraint in terms of process, scaling up and reducing the cost of flakes, rather than continuous films,” he said.

However, Marinelli also admitted that the question of price is the most difficult to answer in relation to graphene.

“If the material delivers the advantages that we all hope it will, price will become irrelevant because the material is only used in very small quantities,” he said.

“Secondly, I would rather not set a price that limits the range of applications. Rather, I would like to try and explore an application that can redefine the price point for the final product, which provides advantages for the customer as well as for the supplier,” he added.

Marinelli also noted that, realistically, graphene is going to make its way onto the commercial landscape via high value products, at least to begin with.

Market share

While the different and as yet ‘ unstandardised’ types of graphene each have their own advantages and disadvantages, Marinelli believes that the future of this material will contain both graphite-route and synthetic producers.

“To an extent, we have a degree of overlap even among platelets applications,” he said.

“Perhaps graphite-derived graphene, because of the presence of graphite and transition metals, might be more suitable for electrical conductivity applications and other uses, such as inks and plastic electronics.”

“AGM’s synthetic graphene platelets might find greater acceptance in polymer composites, paints and coatings, lubricants and functional fluids, whereas other end markets are more suited to the film-type of graphene,” he told IM.

“I do believe that both [types of producer] will be very busy filling the requirements of customers in these areas,” he added.

To conclude, Marinelli stated that while no killer application for graphene has yet been rolled out, commercial production of the material is not far off.

“Purely from a statistical point of view, there are so many potential applications that have been proposed to us that some of these are going to come to fruition,” Marinelli explained.

“In addition, the diversity of these applications, combined with the multi-functionality of graphene, gives me a lot of hope that we will pretty soon find a home in the shape of a ‘killer application’,” he said. "

1. from your url citation, dated oct17/16:--from Business Insider"

""But its real-world application so far has been limited by the high cost associated with producing it.

"The reason we are not using it yet, even though the material is not a new one, is that there is "no mass production for it yet that can show reasonable cost and scalability," Gauchia explained."

But Fisker told Business Insider that his battery division, Fisker Nanotech, was patenting a machine that he said could produce as much as 1,000 kilograms of graphene at a cost of just 10 cents a kilogram.

Jack Kavanaugh, the head of Fisker Nanotech, also told Business Insider the machine could "feasibly"produce 1,000 kilograms of graphene."

Its a hyperbole laced set of unproven, untested, un patented marketing claims, as admitted by the promoters' executives. 

Zip proof, and nobody is referring to it.

Peter