Graphene enters our brains

Earlier this year, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, made history with a revolutionary brain implant the size of duct tape.The implant, which uses graphene as an electrode material, allows scientists to monitor activity deep in the brain without the need for surface-penetrating probes or other more invasive procedures.

It simply attaches to the surface of the brain under the skull and reads what’s happening underneath.

Duygu Kuzum, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and senior researcher on this project, noted:

“With this technology we expand the spatial range of neural recordings. Even though our implant is located on the surface of the brain, the design exceeds the limits of physical perception by being able to infer neural activity from deeper layers.”

AI plays a crucial role in making these conclusions, but without the 20 micrometer wide graphene electrodes, nothing on this scale would have been even close to possible.

Graphene started as a scientific experiment

These types of stories seem to be becoming more and more plentiful lately, indicating that a critical corner has arrived in the graphene story.

Every new substance goes through the same cycle.

From experimental and expensive to mundane and cheap, the transition from scientific projects to mainstream commercial material can take years or even decades.

For modern plastics, the same story began almost exactly 100 years before graphene with the advent of Bakelite in 1907.

Since then, plastics have taken over the Earth and can be found in almost every mass-produced consumer product in existence.

Before plastics, aluminum was the wonder material of the early industrial age.

In the mid-1800s, the builders of the Washington Monument went so far as to incorporate it into the building’s canopy, as aluminum commanded a higher price than gold at the time.

Today it is the most common not synthetic material known to man.

With graphene the story will be much the same, but the extent to which it will evolve the products in which it is used will be much more profound.

The neural implant described above was just one example.

Charging the rechargeable graphene battery takes less than a minute

Another example, less exciting and much more impactful on modern life, is graphene used in rechargeable battery technology.

Right now, in Brisbane, Australia, there is a company building lithium-free, graphene-based rechargeable batteries that are in a completely different performance category than any other battery on the open market.

These batteries have a 2-3 times longer lifespan, 2-3 times the charging capacity and up to 2-3 times the lifespan 70 times the loading speed.

You read the last number correctly. That’s 70x faster charging than your phone, tablet or electric car – meaning it takes less time to fully charge the battery than it would take to complete this article.

In fact, these batteries charge faster than you could fill a standard ICE fuel tank at the pump – immediately removing the biggest hurdle holding back potential EV buyers: charging delay.

These graphene batteries are also fire-resistant and so durable that they will continue to work after enduring a point-blank shot from a rifle.

Graphene batteries are the gasoline for lithium coal

Like I said, nothing in lithium comes close.

And being lithium-free in a world where the lithium refining industry is virtually owned by the Chinese Communist Party is an advantage in itself.

So why aren’t these batteries already dominating the market?

Simple… Because they are still in the testing phase.

This company is slowly developing and perfecting the product while ramping up early production.

These batteries could soon find their way into small tech consumer products.

Ultimately, however, it is quite conceivable that they will find their way into institutional and consumer-operated electric vehicles.

The company behind all this is small and quiet, but it is focused on graphene as a product and as you have probably already seen, graphene has a big role to play in the future.

The best time to buy is when no one is talking about it

However, it is still quiet at the moment.

This company trades on two North American exchanges for less than $100 million, even though its work with graphene batteries easily has multi-billion dollar potential.

I first introduced my readers to this company last year and needless to say, a lot has changed since then.

Today may be the best time ever to get into the graphene battery industry before it becomes the next big thing in consumer technology.

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