 Today I have the pleasure speaking with Dan Blondell from NanoOne Materials. How are you today? Fantastic. Thanks very much for having me. Well, let's just start with congratulations and your recent private placement was what? Over-subscribed by how much? So it was an 11 million dollar private placement and over-subscribed by 80%. Our first meeting out, we were already over-subscribed. It was amazing. It's the whole thing kind of unfolded over about a two-week period at the beginning of February. So, of course, those of you out there that do private placements regularly know how exceptional this particular news is. So I have to ask you, what sentiment drove this or is it just because of you, Dan? Well, you know what? We've done a fantastic job I think bringing Volkswagen and government funding into the company and other partners and that all happened in basically a lull last year when it was just really hard to get a lot of love for it. But what we saw right at the beginning of January was a change in the sentiment in the market towards the whole ESG, you know, environmental, social governance kind of investing and the clean technology space. And we happen to have a technology that's kind of focused on, of course, lithium-ion batteries, but it's also a clean technology. So, you know, we don't have any waste streams or anything like that and so it's driven, it drove a lot of that ESG sentiment our way. We sensed it right away at the beginning of January. We got a lead order in place from the UK and that was two million dollars and then we had five the next day. We had ten within a couple days and we were over eleven by the time I had my first meeting. So is this evidence that battery materials are back in? For sure. For sure. I mean, we've seen a shift in the lithium stocks. We've seen more kind of interest coming back into the market. I think everyone recognizes that electric vehicles are here to stay when you see what Europe's doing with the kind of the mega factories they're putting into place and what we're seeing kind of around the world adoption-wise. It's stunning. So I think the world is realizing it. I went to a Christmas party this year and I couldn't get out of the room without talking about lithium-ion batteries. This is with a group of friends who never asked me any of those questions before. So even like, I think I see it really at a grassroots level. Everyone's interested in electric cars. It's amazing. But they're interested in electric cars but they're also specifically interested in you and what you guys are up to. Can you talk to us about your most recent developments with your patents, for instance? So we had a patent come out in August, what we call our single-crystal, coated single-crystal nanocrystal technology. And really what that does is it's aimed at improving the longevity of the materials that go in the battery. If you can make the materials last longer and you make the battery last longer, it's got more durability, that gives the OEMs, the car manufacturers, more ability to charge it faster because charging damages the battery. It's the faster you charge it, the bigger impact it has on the durability. So if you can increase the durability, you give them more range to basically charge it faster and drive it further on a day-to-day basis. So it's really focused on extending range and extending the charging rates. And of course you're kind of becoming the rising, well, the rock star, the battery materials. What's to talk to you? I know Trudeau came out to your office last year. Can you tell us a little bit more about, you know, I mean the Nobel Prize winner for battery materials last year? You have a relationship with, is that not correct? Yeah, so Dr. Stanley Winningham, who I've met on a number of occasions, I was lucky enough to have dinner with him a couple weeks before he got the prize actually. Very humble and very obviously a very influential man. He was here yesterday actually in Toronto and presenting at a sort of battery materials seminar in town and got to meet him again. He's an amazing man actually and really a foundational part of the whole lithium-ion battery space. And I was asking you that question to warm me up for the next one, which is can you give us a little glimpse into what we might see here this year in 2020 in battery materials, some comments that you might share, for instance, at that dinner with your friends. So the $11 million we brought in actually also brought in another $5 million in government funding and that's all non-dilutive. That gives us, you know, somewhere north of $16 million really in terms of our Treasury, a three and a half year runway, but this year is all focused on execution. So it's about bringing, as I say, bringing Volkswagen into a deeper relationship, bringing possibly some of our other undisclosed partners and they're all peers of Volkswagen into the space and being able to announce some of the progress we've made on that front. Obviously, we're working in China. China is a little bit of a wild card right now with the whole coronavirus and the sort of disruption to the space, but we've got an active partner there and we're both doing our work very effectively. It hasn't really affected our business yet, any of that impact. And so we're working hard towards getting to some kind of a license deal, some kind of a commercial arrangement where they would use our technology in all of their expansion plans for their lithium-ion phosphate plants. Well Dan, as always, it's a pleasure. Thank you for the update and congratulations on your recent news. Well, thank you very much.