The following news release from 2016 is perhaps one of the most important news releases to date. It is significat in part because of the location of the research facility (Japan). Read between the lines and connect the dots.  Cheers, Fluffy the Cat

30 November 2016

"Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. (“Zenyatta” or “Company”) (TSXV: ZEN) announces that Dr. Yoshihiko Arao and Professor Masatoshi Kubouchi at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (‘Tokyo Tech’) in Japan demonstrated the ease and high-yield conversion of Albany graphite to graphene. 

The results from Dr. Arao also endorse an outcome announced in the Company’s news release dated 16 May 2016 from Dr. Oren Regev, (Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel).  Dr. Regev stated that they regularly use various types of commercially available natural flake graphite, but found Albany graphite to easily exfoliate under sonication and with much higher yields of graphene nano-particles than any other natural graphite types that were tested.

Dr. Arao, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tokyo Tech, stated “Zenyatta’s high-purity graphite material was tested by our scientific team on mechanical conversion to graphene and discovered it converted much easier and with higher yields of graphene than our reference material. We have tested many types of natural graphite but found Zenyatta’s graphite material to have better exfoliation performance and produce better graphene particles than the reference material. We believe that this is an unique material and we would like to carry out further collaborative work with Zenyatta on graphene applications.”

Tokyo Tech is the top national university for science and technology in Japan with a history spanning more than 130 years. It is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, and is considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in Japan and the world.  Tokyo Tech continues to develop global leaders in the fields of science and technology, and contributes to the betterment of society through its research, focusing on solutions to global issues. The Institute's long-term goal is to become the world's leading science and technology university."