Turning Trash into Graphene in a Flash

Turning Trash into Graphene in a Flash
Jan-31-20
Scientists claim to have discovered a way to turn any carbon-based trash - from food scraps to plastics - into graphene with just a zap of electricity.

The method is cheaper and greener than traditional methods of producing graphene in this process that also fixes the carbon into the new material so it can't be released into the atmosphere again.

Adding graphene to concrete, for example, can lessen by one-third the massive environmental impact of concrete manufacturing which emits about 8 percent of human-made carbon dioxide every year.

The so-called 'flash graphene' is produced in just 10 milliseconds by heating carbon-containing materials to 3000 Kelvin in a custom-designed reactor.



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Are you sure this is graphene and not graphene oxide? Also is there any chance for this to be scaled up?
Posted by Thieo E. Hogen-Esch on February 5, 2020
Dear Team, I love this stuff. Is it like Densification , ware we melt waste and are lift with a by product ASH, I would like to send on information to the team .
Posted by John O'Loughlin on February 6, 2020
I need to use this technology in concert
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Posted by Abdulaziz Alomran on March 5, 2020

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