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    <pre style="white-space:pre-line"><code>VISITS

(centre) Prof. Ricardo Vinicius Bof de      who heads the Centre for Advanced 2D         universities and institutes for swifter
Oliveira                                    Materials at NUS, the National University    and smoother outcomes in science and
                                            of Singapore. He has masterminded            technology that are immediately and
FIRJANâ€™s heritage quarters: now a training  Singaporeâ€™s R&D into graphene, a unique      seamlessly applied into business and
and cultural centre                         new material comprising a one-atom-          society, bypassing thus bureaucratic
                                            thick layer that proves to be ultra-         or institutional hurdles or biases often
                                            strong. Given its electric and magnetic      raised against science links with
                                            conductiviy properties, graphene             business, whose sources of finance
                                            shall find applications in the field of      are so critical for the viability of new
                                            semiconductors, touch screens, solar-        discoveries.
                                            panel cells, batteries, etc. Unable to be
                                            present at this meeting, Prof. Castro            Mr. Ogawa and Mr. Cardona Romani
                                            Neto had his partner, Prof. Ricardo          then returned to Brazil to begin acting
                                            Vinicius Bof de Oliveira, discuss and        on the pointers raised during their
                                            share ideas with Mr. Cardona, seeing         discussions in Southeast Asia. The
                                            as both are experts in new materials.        matter of automation and technology
                                            In fact, Prof. Castro Neto had delivered     overall has become a pressing one,
                                            himself a presentation just months           as companies in Brazil, Singapore and
                                            earlier in Rio de Janeiro, thus making       everywhere strive to remain competitive
                                            new connections with his Brazilian peers     in a globalised business environment.
                                            while in that state capital.                 It stands to reason that substantial
                                                                                         gains in industrial productivity shall
                                                 The Brazilian experts exchanged         be derived from the application
                                            insights on crafting science for the         of new concepts, new materials,
                                            future needs of Singapore and Brazil         new tools and new breakthroughs,
                                            and on making scientific findings            wherever innovation can be sourced
                                            commercially viable. The group upheld        and harnessed for the betterment of
                                            the need to link up industry, capital,       manufacturing processes.

2DM: New Start-up by Brazilians Makes Waves,
or rather, Graphene in Singapore by Carlos Brian Pheysey

CEO Patrick Teyssonneyre, a Brazilian now   As a spin-off of the R&D work de-            scientists turned entrepreneurs, Prof.
in charge                                            veloped at the Centre for Ad-       Ricardo Vinicius Bof de Oliveira and Mr.
                                                     vanced 2D Materials, at the cam-    Patrick Teyssonneyre, both Brazilian
                                            pus of NUS, a small business enterprise      experts involved in making science and
                                            has emerged that proves promising. The       innovation reach markets. They not only
                                            start-up 2DM (or rather 2D Materials         produce powder nanoplatelets and for-
                                            Pte. Ltd.), founded just a few years back,   mulations but also provide technical
                                            is making graphene in commercially via-      support in characterisation of samples
                                            ble quantities. This high-tech, ultra-light  for quality assurance, in dispersion pro-
                                            ingredient will enhance the conductiv-       tocols and evaluation of properties.
                                            ity and tenacity properties of compos-
                                            ites, coatings, lubricants, batteries and    Upon Request
                                            more. From carbon-based substances,
                                            2DM is able to achieve high-purity gra-        Upon request, they can develop spe-
                                            phene, i.e. fewer than ten layers of gra-    cific applications for use in the chemical
                                            phene in each plate, for client industries   industry, soon in the solar, electronic
                                            demanding reliable quality and volumes.      and other ones. The Brazilian scientists
                                            The outfitâ€™s homepage has an order           based at NUS, led by Prof. AntÃ´nio HÃ©-
                                            form for powder, underscoring the tran-      lio Castro Neto, flew back in September
                                            sition from science to commerce.             2019 so as to join the â€œGraphene Brazilâ€
                                                                                         international summit. It is through this
                                               The university, along with the statu-     and other initiatives that they are reach-
                                            tory board â€œEnterprise Singaporeâ€, made      ing out to various industries and manu-
                                            this company into a reality at Science       facturers and making a mark in the an-
                                            Park (adjacent to NUS), by way of its        nals of applied science and technology.

                                            Itâ€™s Time for Brazil in Singapore 2019 27</code></pre>
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