CSIRO and 3D Graphtech Industries Team for 3D Printing Graphene Research

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Seems like Graphene and 3D Printing have been two technologies which are intersecting quite a bit. Today one of the newest joint ventures within the area, called 3D Graphtech Industries has announce that they have teamed with Australia’s national science agency CSIRO to further their research on the topic of graphene within 3D printing. More details on this partnership can be found here, as well as what it may mean for the industry. http://3dprint.com/12849/3d-print-graphene-csiro

Let's hear your opinions!

[Geoff]

Seems like Graphene and 3D Printing have been two technologies which are intersecting quite a bit. Today one of the newest joint ventures within the area, called 3D Graphtech Industries has announce that they have teamed with Australia’s national science agency CSIRO to further their research on the topic of graphene within 3D printing. More details on this partnership can be found here, as well as what it may mean for the industry. http://3dprint.com/12849/3d-print-graphene-csiro

Let's hear your opinions!

Anything with CSIRO in the title is promising, although I am proudly biased on the matter, they have created some of the worlds most popular inventions, WI-FI namely... black box recorders, contact lenses... fly spray, computers... the list literally goes on.

[old man emu]

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
Oi! Oi! Oi!

OME

[bshadown]

they have created some of the worlds most popular inventions, WI-FI namely... black box recorders, contact lenses... fly spray, computers... the list literally goes on.

It wasnt WI-FI and computers invented on the states?? or it happend the same with color TV, that was invented on mexico but it was rejected on mexico, but it was accepted and branded on the States??

[old man emu]

Wifi was invented by Australian astro-physicists who were trying to filter out background radio frequencies from their radio observations of the Universe. Wifi was aby-product of those efforts.

The Australian radio-astronomer John O'Sullivan developed a key patent used in Wi-Fi as a by-product in a CSIRO research project, "a failed experiment to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle".^[7] In 1992 and 1996, Australian organization CSIRO (the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) obtained patents^[8] for a method later used in Wi-Fi to "unsmear" the signal.^{[9] (Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi)}

In April 2009, 14 technology companies agreed to pay CSIRO $250 million for infringements on CSIRO patents.^[11] This led to Australians labelling Wi-Fi as an Australian invention,^[12] though this has been the subject of some controversy.^[13][14] CSIRO won a further $220 million settlement for Wi-Fi patent-infringements in 2012 with global firms in the United States required to pay the CSIRO licensing rights estimated to be worth an additional $1 billion in royalties.<sup>[11][15][16]

OME</sup>

[bshadown]

Ok that makes sense, thanks for the info,