Mark Gallerneault is director of technology at a research lab in Kingston, Ont., that could soon launch Canada into the forefront of a coming graphene revolution.
“It’s going from a curiosity to something that people can actually work with,” says Gallernault, who works out of the Grafoid Global Technology Centre, just north of the city’s downtown.
Privately funded, Ottawa-based Grafoid opened the Kingston research and development plant last year in a lab abandoned by aluminum giant Alcan.
With a start-up investment from its sister company, the Canadian mining development firm Focus Graphite Inc., Grafoid raised more than $10 million in venture capital in 2013 before opening the R&D facility...
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