Great new release on the battery program.

One of the physical properties that ZEN has published on the Albany graphite is resistivity or how easily electricity can flow through the material. The lower the better in electrical applications such as battery use. Think of wood and copper, one does not transmit electricity and one is an almost perfect conductor of electricity. Graphite is anywhere from 100,000 to 100,000,00 times less good, than copper, but is still 1000 to 1,000,000 times better than say water (which still conducts electricity which is why we leave the pool during an electrical storm). Since graphite used in LiI batteries is used as the anode transmitting an electrical charge is important.

ZEN we know has low levels of metals as has been stated by Dr. Chahar. This is important as metal atoms within the graphite would tend to preferentially transmit charge and therefore disrupt the graphite properties.

Purfied material has been assayed to have less than 500 ppm of which 67ppm was sulfer (a negligable amount) and less than 1ppm was boron (suitable for nuclear usage--PR 2Sept2014). So that leaves less than 450ppm of everything else.

Purified material also demonstrated an electrical resistivity of 0.0034 ohm-cm. The company also indicated that this number might even be lower if the material was further selected for particle size and orientation ( The resistivity test was conducted on a random sample of Zenyatta’s high purity Albany graphite without any attempt to select particle size or to align the graphite crystals to optimize the test results.--PR 3 Oct 2013).

While most natural graphite companies do not seem to publish resistivity numbers Asbury and other sellers do and the value ZEN observed is lower than all but a few synthetic materials and perhaps could still be improved.