| Dear Reader, Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, recently made history with a revolutionary brain implant the thickness of Scotch tape. The implant, which uses graphene for the electrode material, allows scientists to monitor activity deep within the brain without the need for surface-penetrating probes or other more invasive procedures. It simply adheres to the brain's surface under the skull and reads what's happening underneath.  Duygu Kuzum, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and senior researcher on this project, commented: "We are expanding the spatial reach of neural recordings with this technology. Even though our implant resides on the brain's surface, its design goes beyond the limits of physical sensing in that it can infer neural activity from deeper layers." AI plays a crucial role in making these inferences, but without the 20 micrometer-wide graphene electrodes, nothing on this scale would have been even close to possible. What started off as a Nobel-Prize winning experiment a decade ago has quickly grown into one of the biggest stories in technology, with the example cited above being just one of a long list of revolutionary applications for this nanostructure. Another example, one potentially far more impactful on modern life, is graphene applied to rechargeable battery technology. Right now there's a company building lithium-free graphene-based rechargeable batteries in Brisbane Australia that are in a completely different performance category from anything on the open market. These batteries have 2-3 times the service life, 2-3 times the charge capacity, and up to 70 times the charge speed. You read the last figure correctly. That's 70x faster to charge than the one in your phone, your tablet, or your EV — which means it takes less time to charge the battery to capacity than it will to finish this article. In fact, these batteries charge faster than you could fill a standard ICE fuel tank at the pump — which immediately eliminates the biggest hurdle stopping prospective EV buyers: charge delay. These graphene batteries are also fire-proof and so durable that they've continued to run after withstanding a point-blank shot from a rifle. Like I said, there is nothing in the lithium realm that comes close. And to be lithium-free in a world where the lithium refining industry is all but owned by the Chinese Communist Party is a benefit of its own kind. So why aren't these batteries dominating the market already? Simple… Because they're still in testing. This company is slowly developing and perfecting the product while ramping up early-run production. Soon enough, these batteries could start to trickle their way into small consumer tech products. Eventually, however, it's quite conceivable that they'll find their way into institutional and consumer-operated electric vehicles. The company behind it all is small and quiet, but it's focused on graphene as a product and as you've probably been able to tell, graphene has a huge role to play in the future. At the moment, however, things are still quiet. This company trades on two North American exchanges for less than $100M, even though its work with graphene batteries easily has multi-billion dollar potential. I first introduced my readers to this company last year, and needless to say, a lot has changed since then. Today may be the best time ever to get exposed to the graphene battery sector before it becomes the next big thing in consumer tech. Want to see the same presentation I've offered my premium subscribers? Check it out for free, right here. Fortune favors the bold,  Alex Koyfman
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