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Rice University: Flashing Plastic Ash Completes Recycling
January 14, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 14 (TNSJou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

Pyrolyzed plastic ash is worthless, but perhaps not for long.

Rice University scientists have turned their attention to Joule heating of the material, a byproduct of plastic recycling processes. A strong jolt of energy flashes it into graphene.

The technique by the lab of Rice chemist James Tour produces turbostratic graphene flakes that can be directly added to other sub . . .

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