Michigen based XG Sciences uses technology developed at Michigan State University to produce Graphene Nanoplatelets, or xGnPs. Those short stacks of graphene sheets made through a proprietary manufacturing process can be used to replace carbon nanotubes - at a lower cost.

We posted an interview with Michael Knox, the company's co-founder and CEO . Michael discusses XGS' technology, production facility, product offering, new Li-Ion materials and more. Michael also gave us his view on the graphene market and the current major challenges.

Garmor announced a couple of weeks ago that it will begin to start producing graphene oxide flakes next month using its low-cost environmentally-friendly production process.

Sean Christiansen, Garmor's VP of engineering has been kind enough to answer a few question regarding the company's business and technology. Click here to read this interesting interview.

Researchers from Sweden demonstrated how graphene can dissipate heat in silicon based electronics. The researchers placed a graphene sheet on an electronic device hot-spots which reduced the working temperature by 25%.

All electronic devices generate heat. The devices (processors, for example) include those hot-spots where the work is most intensive. These spots are small (on a micro or nano scale). In their experiment, the hotspots had a normal temperature of 55 to 115 degrees Celsius. The graphene layer reduced it by up to 13 degrees.

Back in 2011, it was discovered that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature. Graphene actually lowers the temperature of a transistor if it is attached to it. In April 2013 Grafoid signed a joint-venture development agreement with CapTherm Systems to develop and commercialize graphene-based multiphase thermal management systems.

China's Chongqing Morsh Technology is building a production line in Chongqing that will be used to produce 15" single-layer graphene films. They hope to start production by March 2014, and they already signed an agreement with Guangdong Zhengyang, an OGS maker to produce 10 million graphene based transparent conducting films (TCFs) in a year for the next five years. These films will be used to produce touch panels for mobile devices.

Chongqing Morsh was established by the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology. The company is buying graphene from Ningbo Morsh Technology, which was established by Shanghai Nanjiang in 2012 to produce graphene materials.

The University of Manchester and the University of Liverpool launched a new consortium to develop new graphene-based energy storage devices. The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) granted £3.3 million ($5 million) to the new consortium.

As part of this project, the University of Manchester will build a new grid-scale energy storage test facility, that will also be made available to industrial partners. This will allow energy storage systems to be fully tested before widespread deployment. The new facility will be operational by 2014.