Penn State researchers have developed a way to turn discarded plastic bottles into battery-grade graphite for use in electric ...

A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy ...

Scientists have developed a method to convert discarded plastic bottles into synthetic graphite, a critical material for ...

A reaction that puzzled scientists for 50 years has now been explained by researchers at Umeå University. Rapid structural snapshots captured how graphite transforms into graphite oxide during ...

(Nanowerk News) Natural graphite, used as the precursor for graphene oxide production, is a highly ordered crystalline inorganic material, which is believed to be formed by decay of organic matter. It ...

Researchers in Sweden report a green alternative to reduce reliance on mining graphite, the raw source behind the "wonder material" graphene. In the journal Small, researchers at KTH Royal Institute ...

One of the main environmental topics of the 21 st century is replacing conventional polluting fossil fuels with clean, sustainable renewable energy sources. In the effort to meet this demand, novel ...

With the rapid development of graphene industry, low-cost sustainable synthesis of monolayer graphene oxide (GO) has become more and more important for many applications such as water desalination, ...

The rGO technique and its related processes have their foundations in the Brodie method, which later became the Hummers method. Variants of the technique then developed on from the Hummers method. The ...

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology claim to have significantly advanced sustainable nanomaterial synthesis by creating a scalable and repeatable process for creating graphene oxide (GO) ...

The video shows the surface of a material that was originally graphite, and how its appearance changes in waves. Above the footage, changes in voltage are displayed. When the voltage is high, many ...