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Nov. 12, 2013 08:21AM PST
Northern Graphite (TSXV:NGC) has teamed up with Coulometrics LLC to manage the development of its proprietary technologies for manufacturing spherical graphite (SPG) and improving the performance of lithium ion batteries. The company’s main focus will be the development of nano-material based surface coatings for the SPG, which is manufactured from flake graphite concentrate.
Northern Graphite (TSXV:NGC) has teamed up with Coulometrics LLC to manage the development of its proprietary technologies for manufacturing spherical graphite (SPG) and improving the performance of lithium ion batteries. The company’s main focus will be the development of nano-material based surface coatings for the SPG, which is manufactured from flake graphite concentrate.
CEO Greg Bowes commented that:
[T]he Li-ion battery industry is almost entirely dependent on China for the supply of SPG made from natural graphite. The Company’s objective’s are to provide Li-ion battery manufacturers with a stable, secure source of high quality, advanced graphite materials produced in an environmentally acceptable manner, and to capture additional margin from value added, upgraded products.
Dr. Edward Buiel, founder of Coulometrics said in a statement:
Northern’s SPG has surprisingly good reversible capacity without the need for thermal processing which indicates very good natural graphite with a low degree of disorder in its crystal structure.
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