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Farewell to Kim Venta and Welcome Madeline Diaz-Serrano!
Kim Venta has decided to leave the GF Team to focus on an intense, 7-week training course to learn data science. Her interest in data science was sparked by her work here at Graphene Frontiers and we are all looking forward to Kim’s next adventure. Good luck Kim! Replacing Kim as our new Technology Development Manager,…
Read MoreYeonoh Leaves for Penn State
GF Team bids fond farewell to our awesome Lab Tech, Yeonoh Shin, as he leaves for graduate school at Penn State. Yeonoh’s work was exemplary and we wish him all the best!
Read MoreGraphene Frontiers at Escape the Room Philly!
Team building yesterday at Escape the Room Philly was fun, and both teams solved their way into victory!
Read MoreCEO: Philly is a Hive of Innovation Activity. So How Can We Cross-pollinate?
By Mike Patterson, CEO, Graphene Frontiers Philadelphia has the ability to rewrite the rules on collaborative innovation. While knowledge used to be power, it is now knowledge-sharing that can create a long-term, sustainable ecosystem of growth. If University City is a ‘hive’ of innovation, there’s no queen bee – it’s an orchestrated network of worker…
Read MoreMeet Philly’s Supermaterial Maker: Graphene Frontiers
Editor’s note: This story appears in the Philly Tech Week 2015 program and magazine. Stories from the magazine will be published online this week. Register for Business Track Dayat #PTW15 for more insights from area entrepreneurs. What’s thin, flexible, transparent, highly conductive, ten times more durable than diamond and won a Nobel Prize back in 2010? That’s right,…
Read MoreJapanese Researchers Study Carbon Nanotubes with Drug Delivery Applications
March 31, 2015 | By Varun Saxena Researchers across the world are scrambling to invent new technologies made out of graphene, perfectly flat sheets of carbon atoms that are only one atom thick. For instance, South Korea’s Samsung is developing foldable screens made out of graphene, while the European Union is devoting €1 billion ($1.1 billion)…
Read MoreSynthetic Material Opens Frontiers in Medical Diagnostics
Posted on March 25, 2015 by rbadmin in Innovation City By Patrick Doherty This University City startup is exploring and exploiting the properties of a material that’s stronger than steel and nearly transparent. Imagine being able to get tested for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously, all from a single drop of…
Read MorePushing the Frontiers of a New Material: Graphene
A short video about the innovative company, Graphene Frontiers, and its cutting edge technology for manufacturing graphene material for industry. Graphene is the Nobel Prize-winning, next generation, wonder material, because it is exceptionally thin, strong, transparent, and conductive. It has been called “the miracle material of the 21st century”. Graphene Frontiers is a leading company…
Read MoreThe Cutting Edge
June 10, 2014 philly.com/Philadelphia Inquirer In a University City laboratory, Mike Patterson recently shared his thoughts on the potential impact of the business he has helped launch. In doing so, the CEO of Graphene Frontiers demonstrated an unapologetic inability to understate. “This is changing-the-world stuff,” Patterson said. Read more…
Read MoreThe business potential of (amazing, wonderful, futuristic) graphene
May 12, 2014 Fortune Tech In the technology industry, every new product or service seems to come with the promise that it is an innovation with the potential to change the world. Graphene, a form of carbon, might actually do just that. Read more…
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