Evelyn Allen and Michael Pope

McMaster University profiles Evercloak’s founders, Evelyn Allen and Dr. Michael Pope

“A million times thinner than a strand of hair.”

That’s how Evelyn Allen (née Jackson), BEng’03 describes graphene, the nanomaterial that could play a big part in the solution to greenhouse global gas emissions. She and another McMaster grad, Dr. Michael Pope (BEng & BioSci’07), have teamed up to form Evercloak Inc., a cleantech startup commercializing a platform technology to develop 2-dimensional nanomaterials in a new way to make them into ultra-thin film coatings.

Read the full article here -> http://alumni.mcmaster.ca/s/1439/19as/interior.aspx?sid=1439&gid=1&pgid=9570

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