Abstract
Kwasi Kwarteng, the UK’s secretary of state for business, energy, and industrial strategy, has put on hold the purchase of Perpetuus Group, a UK graphene maker, because of national security concerns. Kwarteng has ordered the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority to investigate Taurus International, the would-be buyer of Perpetuus, and any companies associated with Zhongfu Zhou, Perpetuus’s chief nanotechnology scientist, who boasts on his LinkedIn profile of strong links with academia and industry in China. Kwarteng has until Feb. 7, 2022, to decide whether to allow the deal. In addition to his role at Perpetuus, Zhou is managing director of China’s Inner Mongolia Industrial Research Institute for Composite Materials. Until 2020 he was a research professor in the physics department at Aberystwyth University in Wales. He obtained his undergraduate degree and his PhD in the physical chemistry of metallurgy at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. Taurus describes itself
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