Electricity turns garbage into graphene

[jeffreyi]

Science doesn’t usually take after fairy tales. But Rumpelstiltskin, the magical imp who spun straw into gold, would be impressed with the latest chemical wizardry. Researchers at Rice University report today in Nature that they can zap virtually any source of solid carbon, from food scraps to old car tires, and turn it into graphene—sheets of carbon atoms prized for applications ranging from high-strength plastic to flexible electronics...

....more at link...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/electricity-turns-garbage-graphene

[Beakybird]

1. Hurray! Graphene is amazing stuff, and garbage is bad.

Give me an address, and I'll send them a banana peel as a one time donation.