Graphene is one atom thick—and often larger than its hype. From Wallace’s 1947 band theory and Friday-night experiments in Manchester, through a Nature rejection that preceded the 2004 Science paper, Balandin’s Raman thermometer in Riverside, and Lee’s AFM tip at Columbia, this book follows the people and problems that turned a hexagonal sheet of carbon into an industrial material. Written for engineers, buyers, and formulators, it separates landmark laboratory numbers from bulk grades, explains how graphene is made without publishing proprietary recipes, and shows how Graphene Integrations in Charlotte, North Carolina, puts graphene into carriers plants can actually use—coolants, lubricants, concrete, coatings, and composites. Claims stay tested and clearly labeled; safety follows the SDS. Ask better questions. Buy better grades. Test what matters.
What’s inside
- History: From Graphite Theory to the Nobel Prize
- What Graphene Is
- How Graphene Is Made
- Thermal Properties
- Electrical and Electronic Properties
- Mechanical Properties
- Barrier and Chemical Properties
- Optical Properties
- Dispersions and Integration into Host Materials
- Applications by Industry
- Safety, Health, Environment, and Standards
- Market, Commercialization, and Hype vs Reality
- How Graphene Integrations Works with Graphene
Plus About the Author, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index.
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- The history and discovery of graphene
- How graphene is made
- Graphene and heat in data centers
- Graphene in concrete and lubricants
About the author
Frans Alkemade is the founder and CEO of Graphene Integrations, a US graphene manufacturer based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and founder/CEO of sister company Nano Technology Chemicals (NTC), a chemical distributor and toll blender.
His path into science runs through Stanford’s physics community: born in Holland, raised in California’s Bay Area after arriving in America at age one, and shaped early by visits to labs where his father worked alongside Dr. Arthur L. Schawlow. Schawlow shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to laser spectroscopy (NobelPrize.org; Stanford Physics); as a family account, Frans’s father received credit from Schawlow for help toward that work. A lasting personal tie—including Schawlow’s presence at Frans’s wedding and the wintergreen Life Savers that marked childhood visits—helped turn curiosity into a career in materials and manufacturing.
Before Graphene Integrations, Frans served as Director of Apple iMac Operations, with experience that included meetings with Steve Jobs, a castle dinner in South Korea with Tim Cook and the CEO of LG Electronics, and leading the move of iMac production to China—work he credits with saving Apple more than $750 million in manufacturing when Apple had about $3 billion in the bank. Terry Gou, CEO of Hon Hai (Foxconn), told him that effort would appear in Gou’s personal memoirs. Frans moved to the Carolinas in 2008 and later founded Graphene Integrations in Charlotte, applying a scale-first manufacturing mindset to graphene dispersions and additives for concrete, lubricants, data-center coolants (ThermaGraph™ / ThermaGraph-D™), coatings, and polymer composites, including collaborations with partners such as ITW on graphene car-care products for Black Magic and Rain-X brands.
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