Graphene is a recently discovered new allotrope of Carbon, (Diamond and Graphite being the others) and the properties are now being hailed as a breakthrough in Condensed Matter Physics, and subsequently lead to the Nobel Prize for Physics being awarded to Professor Andre K Geim at The University of Manchester in 2010.

[http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/geim_lecture.pdf]

The famous paper that made Professor Geim [http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0702/0702595.pdf] world famous.

The University of Manchester are leading the academic research & development into Graphene.

[http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/story/]

Graphene itself is a remarkable material:-

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene]

So famous in fact that Professor Geim was featured on BBC Radio Four’s “Desert Island Discs”

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/20e3bf76]

With Graphene being hailed as the new semiconductor for the electronics industry, we are seeing new companies focussing their business of Graphene research and development.

Recently The highly regarded University of Durham [www.durham.ac.uk] spun out a company called Advance Graphene Materials:

[http://www.appliedgraphenematerials.com/]

Shareholder   % holding
IP2IPO    20.4%
North East Technology  14.5%
North East Finance  10.4%
Ruffer    7.6%
Durham University  7.3%
SandAire   4.8%
Insight    4.8%
Directors  
Professor Karl Coleman  10.2%
Jon Mabbitt   0.7%
Bryan Dobson   0.7%
Oliver Lightowler  0.2%
Claudio Marinelli  0.1%

Only 34.6%.Applied Graphene Materials’ shares are on free float.

Look at the financials:

[http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?csi=18289034]

A £67m spin out from The University of Durham. British Science at its very best.