CVD Equipment released their financial results for Q2 2013 - $4.8 million in revenue (up 40% from Q2 2012) and a net income of $874K (compared to a net loss of $440K in Q2 2012). CVD moved to a new, significantly larger facility which reduced their order levels (the current order backlog is $5.5 million).

CVD says they received orders for two large graphene systems - one for a square 300mm substrate and the other for a round 200 mm substrate. The company says that their application laboratory is playing an important part in their ability to deliver next generation equipment that meets the evolving needs of this growing material area.

CVD Equipment and Norway's Graphene Batteries signed a joint-IP development agreement to develop a binder-less graphene-based lithium battery electrodes and related novel battery designs. The two companies call the new technology NanotoMacro.

Graphene Batteries, who will lead the design and testing of the new technology says that CVD's electrode manufacturing technology will help them achieve an electrode with a higher energy density, enhanced charging time and longer lifetime - and at a cost reduction of 30%.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas released a new study showing how strong the interface is between graphene and a stretchable substrate. This can lead to new flexible/stretchable electronics.

The new study shows how much the material can be deformed before the the interface to the graphene fails. The researcher also demonstrated a useful approach to make graphene-based, stretchable devices by ‘buckling’ the graphene.

Biogenic Reagents, a producer of high-performance carbon based materials announced it begun commercial production of graphene-carbon compound based Ultra-Adsorptive Carbon ("UAC") products made from renewable biomass to replace traditional activated carbon products for air and water purification.

Typical Activated Carbon is usually made from coal, but Biogenic's new commercial is made from a wood feedstock - and it has approximately 50% greater adsorption capacity. It will also cost less than coal-based products.

Researcher from Australia's Monash University developed new graphene-based supercapacitors that feature high energy density - in fact about 12 times higher than commercially available capacitors. These supercapacitors last as long as a conventional battery (lead-acid).

The researchers used an adaptive graphene gel film, developed at Monash in 2012. They used liquid electrolytes to control the spacing between graphene sheets on the sub-nanometre scale. Those electrolytes played a dual role: maintaining the minute space between the graphene sheets and conducting electricity. In this new electrode design, the density is maximized without compromising porosity.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $360,000 three-year grant to three professors from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) to further study th thermal properties of graphene. The future goal of this study is to find new heat-removal approaches for electronic and optoelectronic devices.

This specific project will investigate the effect of rotation angle on the thermal conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene. The UCR team will study the possibility of suppressing the phonon coupling in twisted graphene layers, allowing for the transfer of extraordinary large heat fluxes. The phonons are quanta of crystal lattice vibrations that carry heat in graphene.