ZEN Graphene Solutions and Guelph University Researchers File Patent on Graphene Oxide Production Method - A Key Ingredient in its Virucidal Ink
Guelph, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 28, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) and (OTC: ZENYF) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the University of Guelph (Guelph) has filed a provisional patent regarding an electrochemical exfoliation (ECE) process to produce graphene oxide (GO) from Albany PureTM Graphite. Highlights: ZEN and Guelph file patent on novel GO production method Exfoliation method is designed to be scalable, low cost, low energy and...
2020-09-28 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Develops Graphene-Based Ink with 99% Virucidal Activity Against COVID-19
Guelph, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 22, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) (OTC Pink: ZENYF) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to report that after 5 months of optimization, it has developed a novel graphene-based virucidal ink with 99% effectiveness against COVID-19. Highlights: ZEN's Virucidal ink is 99% effective against the COVID-19 virus ZEN's Virucidal ink was still 99% effective a minimum of 35 days after application to N95 mask material ZEN is now developing...
2020-09-22 11:22 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. Announces COVID-19 Protocols for Annual Meeting of Shareholders
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 22, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") Shareholders are welcome to attend the Company's annual meeting of shareholders on September 28, 2020. Due to COVID-19 and its threats to the community we are required to follow new procedures at our upcoming annual meeting of shareholders. Those procedures are described below and were designed within the requirements laid out by public health authorities and the...
2020-09-22 8:30 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Provides Corporate Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 3, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to report that industry and university laboratories fully re-opened in late July-early August after a 4 month hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic and they have re-started ZEN's collaborative R&D programs. ZEN will report shortly on significant progress being made in multiple programs, one of which has resulted in the preparation of a patent filing that is...
2020-09-03 8:00 AM EDT
Independent University Research Confirms and Quantifies Ease of Conversion of ZEN Graphene's Albany Pure(TM) Graphite to Graphene
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 6, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that a recent peer reviewed research article clearly demonstrates that ZEN's Albany Graphite exfoliates more easily than other commercially available flake graphite test samples. Significantly, this article provides quantitative data that ZEN's Albany PureTM Graphite has the highest exfoliation rate constant of the materials tested, indicating that...
2020-08-06 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Begins Commercial Collaborations
Guelph, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 30, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN", or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has commenced collaborations with research teams at a number of personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers to incorporate ZEN's virucidal graphene ink into commercial products, including masks, gloves, gowns and other clothing following Zen's promising results for an antiviral, graphene-based ink formulation from The University of Western...
2020-07-30 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Engages Hybrid Financial Ltd.
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 14, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN", or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has retained Hybrid Financial Ltd. ("Hybrid") to provide marketing services. Hybrid has been engaged to heighten market and brand awareness for ZEN Graphene Solutions and to broaden the Company's reach within the investment community. Francis Dubé, CEO commented, "As ZEN evolves from an exploration development company to a nanotechnology...
2020-07-14 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Partners with Evercloak and NGen for Graphene in Cleantech Manufacturing Project
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 9, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Evercloak Inc. (Evercloak) and ZEN have been awarded $125,000 each as part of a Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) Project. The project entitled "Advancing Large-Scale Graphene and Thin-Film Membrane Manufacturing" will support the scale up of graphene oxide (GO) production by ZEN to supply GO to Evercloak for their scale up and...
2020-07-09 8:00 AM EDT
Zen Graphene Solutions Ltd. Completes Non-Brokered Private Placement of Units
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - July 6, 2020) - Zen Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("Zen Graphene" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the closing of the second tranche, comprised of 1,621,175 units, of its previously announced private placement of units (the "Offering"). The Company raised total gross proceeds of $2,049,999.80 under the Offering, which will be used to fund ongoing work on the Albany Graphite Project including graphene research and scale up, COVID-19...
2020-07-06 4:02 PM EDT
Zen Graphene Solutions Ltd. Completes First Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement of Units
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 29, 2020) - Zen Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("Zen Graphene" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the closing of the first tranche of its previously announced private placement of units (the "Offering"). The Company raised gross proceeds of $1,077,294.80 under the Offering, which will be used to fund ongoing work on the Albany Graphite Project including graphene research and scale up, COVID-19 initiatives and other graphene applications...
2020-06-29 8:09 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. Reports on Expressions of Interest for Non-Brokered Private Placements of Units
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 17, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has received expression of interest from investors in an amount of $1,777,000 for the non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") announced on June 15, 2020. These expressions of interest have far exceeded management's expectation and, subject to TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") approval, the Company is working diligently to complete the...
2020-06-17 9:16 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement of Units
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 15, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") announces an offering of units (the "Units") of the Company on a non-brokered private placement basis. Each Unit is offered at a price of $0.60. The Offering is subject to TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") approval. Each Unit will be comprised of one Common Share of the Company and one-half of one non-transferable Common Share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each whole...
2020-06-15 8:30 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces First Results from Graphene Oxide Silver Nanoparticle Ink Formulations
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 11, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has received a report on the first batch of samples that were submitted to Western University's ImPaKT Facility Biosafety Level 3 lab (UWO) for virucidal efficacy testing. The batch-testing program's focus is to confirm and measure virucidal potency of the graphene oxide-based silver nanoparticle composite inks that were produced at ZEN's Guelph...
2020-06-11 5:00 PM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces Collaboration with UBC-O on Department of National Defence Project
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 9, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it will be commencing a new research collaboration with Prof. Mohammad Arjmand and his team at the University of British Columbia (UBC)‐Okanagan Campus, with a $200,000 Department of National Defence (DND) Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) award. ZEN will be providing in-kind contributions of Albany PureTM materials and...
2020-06-09 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Provides COVID-19 Response Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - June 8, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it will be providing Albany PureTM Graphene Oxide produced by its Guelph facility for development of a rapid, ultrasensitive and low cost bio-sensor to detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 antigen and/or antibodies in COVID-19 suspected patients. This research is led by Prof. Maxim Berezovski, a full Professor at the University of Ottawa. Prof....
2020-06-08 1:50 PM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Provides Corporate Update
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 8, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") reports on the following corporate activities and agreements: Warrants Extension ZEN will be applying to the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange") for approval to extend the expiry date of 655,848 common share purchase warrants. On June 22, 2018, the Corporation completed a private placement issuing 1,311,693 units (the "Units") at a price of $0.55 per Unit. Each Unit was...
2020-05-08 6:42 PM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces Collaboration with Graphene Composites Ltd. to Develop a COVID-19 Virucidal Graphene-Based Composite Ink for Face Masks
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 30, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an international collaboration with UK-based Graphene Composites Ltd (GC) to fight COVID-19 by developing a potential virucidal graphene-based composite ink that can be applied to fabrics including N95 face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) for significantly increased protection. Once the development, testing, and confirmation of...
2020-04-30 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Scaling up Graphene Production
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 26, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") has commenced scale-up and engineering studies on processes for the production of Albany Pure ™ Graphene products at the Company's research and development facility in Guelph, Ontario. The priority is to increase graphene production in anticipation of future demand as the Company launched graphene product sales in early March 2020. ZEN will also commission the recently...
2020-03-26 8:00 AM EDT
ZEN Graphene Solutions Announces the Launch of Graphene Product Sales
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 2, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) "ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the launch of Albany Pure TM graphene products on their website at https://shop.zengraphene.com/. The Company is planning to expand its product line to bring Graphene Quantum Dots, Graphene Oxide, Reduced Graphene Oxide, and other graphene-based products to the market. "We have reached a major milestone as our 2020 goal is to start bringing in revenue...
2020-03-02 8:00 AM EST
Zen Graphene Solutions Announces Grand Opening of Guelph Facility for Graphene Materials Production and Development
Thunder Bay, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - February 4, 2020) - ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (TSXV: ZEN) ("ZEN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the grand opening of its Guelph facility on March 3, 2020. The facility will be used for small scale pilot plant production to produce future Albany Pure TM graphene products as well as further research and development work. All shareholders and interested parties are invited to attend. The Guelph facility is located at 24 Corporate Court, Guelph,...
2020-02-04 4:02 PM EST