— Graphene

Congratulations are in order for Karl Coleman the Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year 2011. Not for winning our prize (which is great, of course, but we announced that back in July 2011 so it is old news really…) but for securing a significant amount of funding for his spin-off company Durham Graphene Science (DGS).

Coleman who is a reader in the chemistry department at Durham University, UK, and who received last year’s accolade for ‘his development of new intellectual property for the production of graphene ans its commercial exploitation’,  has just received the news that North East Technology fund, IP Group and Northstar Ventures have committed £1.2 million worth of investment money to DGS.

The company, which was founded less than 2 years ago in August 2010, is a spin out of Durham University and was created by Coleman  to commercialise the manufacture of graphene flakes using chemical vapour deposition. For those who may be interested, you can read all about it in the feature we wrote in September. My question for Dr Coleman is: how much closer does this bring us to be making graphene by the kilo?

Bibiana Campos-Seijo

                  

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