A New Industrially Relevant Route to High Quality Graphene (Graphene LIVE! Europe 2014)

• Introduction to carbon nanomaterials from Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd.

• New Elicarb® SW products and recent developments.

• New Elicarb® Graphene product specification and availability

Andy is a Ph.D. scientist with extensive leadership experience in innovation and new business growth within the speciality chemicals industry. He has a passion for technology entrepreneurship and leads the Advanced Materials Division at Thomas Swan.

 

Andy joined Thomas Swan in August 2012 from Dow Corning Corporation in Michigan, USA. During his 23 year career at Dow Corning he led activities in new business creation and innovation, business start-up, technology development, product development and delivery; and worked in locations in Europe and the USA

 

Andy has a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of York, a M.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Northumbria and a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the Open University. He also has a diploma in Mastering Technology Enterprise from IMD, Switzerland and is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is based at Thomas Swan, Consett, UK.

Thomas Swan Advanced Materials Division is dedicated to the supply of high performance materials into new and emerging markets. Our leading carbon nanotube products, Elicarb® SWNTs and MWNTs are high purity materials available at a scale to meet the needs of your business. We continue to invest in expanding our Elicarb® carbon nanomaterial products and in 2014 we will launch new product line including pristine, high conductivity, Graphene and functionalized, dispersible SWNTs.