Graphene Nanoplatelets production scale-up and extension to other graphene-like products

Raymor Industries Inc.的子公司石墨烯有限合伙公司利用热等离子技术生产石墨烯纳米片(GNP)粉末。正在使用的等离子体技术通过一种工艺提供了一种具有特殊纯度和结晶度的材料，大大简化了传统石墨烯粉末生产的化学生产路线。这条路线消除了传统石墨烯粉末生产中涉及的化学复杂性和危险。雷摩希望更好地了解GNP材料在其反应堆中成核和生长的物理现象，以便为生产和扩大规模提供控制工具。为了更好地描述和理解基于石墨烯结构成核和生长的复杂动力学，将对反应器中的等离子体进行计算流体动力学(CFD)模拟。这将更好地了解各种控制参数的复杂相互作用的系统和关系。 该项目还涉及在麦吉尔大学实验等离子体反应堆上进行测量，以更好地了解这种装置中存在的化学物种。这个以大学为基地的反应堆也将被用来评估将这种生产方法推广到具有类似结构的其他材料的可能性。

Graphene Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of Raymor Industries Inc., uses the thermal plasma tehnology to produce graphene nano-platelets (GNP) powders. The plasma technology being used provides a material of exceptional purity and crystallinity through a process that largely simplifies the chemical production route of conventional graphene powder production. This route eliminates the chemical complexity and hazards involved in conventional graphene powder production. Raymor wishes to understand better the physical phenomena of nucleation and growth of the GNP material in their reactor in order to provide control tools for production and scale increase. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the plasma in the reactor will be made in order to characterize and understand better the complex dynamics at the basis of the nucleation and growth of the graphene structure. This will provide a beter understanding of the system and relationships on the complex interactions of the various control parameters. The project also involves measurements to be made on the McGill University experimental plasma reactor for a better knowledge of the chemical species present in such device. This university-based reactor will also be used to evaluate the possibility of extending the method of production to other materials having similar structures.