Making graphene from trash in less than a second

Scientists at Rice University have developed a technique that can turn nearly any material into valuable graphene in a matter of milliseconds.

[drlemon]

I feel like that grad student isn't getting enough recognition for this.

[lasarith]

Every science breakthrough is making something do something you weren’t expecting.

[dubstepsentinel]

Now for my next trick, I'll create food from graphene!

[lozcomm]

hope this get implemented before the world is covered in trash

[Gamingchairenthusiast]

I hope that grad student gets a nobel prize and a world wide holiday

[alenm]

A👏P👏P👏L👏A👏U👏S👏E👏
for the student. Fantastic news.

[ryze]

"They hit it with a short electrical pulse" that's it!?!? How can it be so simple and not been invented before??

[roninbadger]

For concrete: I did the math and it saves you almost 35% of the energy. it takes 0.1GJ to produce the 0.02% needed to offset 35% of the concrete using 43.54Gj.

[chrluc]

Could you imagine there being a “gold rush” to our landfills to dig up everything we buried for the resources!?

[morrgash]

That is amazing, things like this makes me smile even in the midst of a hard time, thank you for the video!

[onebeets]

you're kidding, if this can be scaled up oh boy
been waiting for this moment 2 years lol

[deenegron]

This is the most practical idea, on multiple levels, that i have ever seen, and that's why the public will never benefit from it, without paying dearly for it.

[mrfxm]

I've actually seen this method in the beginning when graphene was brand new. They used a xenon light bulb for a camera about 500 watts and described it as burning the oxygen off in the flash using graphite as the burn material. It was a short video in the very beginning of its history of short films.

[alexf]

back to the future technology is finally coming soon. We're so behind from the movie

[theirishaxe]

Graphene is also super conductor. I use graphene/lithium batteries

[arjunaich]

Nice. So we can burn all the land fills into useful graphene

[GGCannon]

Not only is this huge, it can be massive for recycling.
Graphene is gonna be extremely sought after in both construction and electronical applications, so being able to turn food and plastic waste into it will make graphene production the greatest recycling process ever, as demand is gonna drive the numbers up.
I hope that the biggest problem it gets is that we run out of trash to turn into graphene.

[paulevideo]

There was a documentary film series on PBS last year “Breakthrough: Ideas That Changed the World—Cars” about the 9, 000 years from dog sleds to self-driving cars of the future. The film mentions graphene as so strong that it could be made into layers like a computer chip, hold a charge, molded into the body of a future car, and double as the battery that powers it! Amazing stuff!

[joepatisti]

so Graphene can be made from trash in a flash looking like ash a rhyming accidental discovery and scientific breakthrough

[oxuri]

The grad student looks like that one guy from breaking bad. The one gus killed with a box cutter