Alabama Graphite Discovers Natural Graphene on its Coosa Property

Alabama Graphite Corp. (TSXV:ALP) announced it has found naturally occurring flake graphene at its Coosa Property in Alabama, USA.

As quoted in the market news,

The graphene was obtained using an innovative and cost effective process, by Dr. Nitin Chopra of The University of Alabama under our sponsored research partnership.

Graphite is made up of multiple layers of graphene stacked on top of each other.  Graphene is a single layer of two dimensional (2-D) carbon atoms.  Graphene is valued because it exhibits superior electrical, optical, mechanical and thermal properties.  It is not only the strongest material known (200 times stronger than steel), but is also one of the most flexible.

Ron S. Roda, CEO of Alabama Graphite stated:

We believe that the discovery of naturally occurring single and multi-layer graphene, on the Coosa Property opens a completely new and unique business dimension for the Company. The biggest challenge today for commercial viability of graphene is cost.  This presents a very exciting opportunity for our Company.

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