Graphene ‘Wonder Material’ Can Now Be Made Using TRASH

A recent breakthrough from researchers at Rice University promises to make graphene out of garbage in a flash. Here’s how this miraculous transformation happens.
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Graphene is a single-atom thick layer of carbon that has a number of properties that make it almost endlessly useful.
So useful in fact, it has been dubbed a "wonder material.” But the thing is graphene is really hard to make in meaningful quantities; however, thanks to a recent breakthrough from Rice University, that all might change.
And the key to it all might be your very own trash.
The process the researchers at Rice University developed involves charging up high-voltage capacitors with electricity, then unleashing it all at once into just about any carbon containing material including anything from coal (which is basically all carbon to start with) to plastics to food waste.
Find out exactly how this process works and what this could mean for the future of graphene in this Elements.
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Mass-Producing Graphene
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"Carbon, the sole constituent of graphene, is all around us. The element is the fourth most common in the entire universe. Most people think of materials in terms of atoms and molecules, where molecules are made from defined types and numbers of atoms. With graphene, counting carbon atoms is inconsequential."
Graphene - the not-so wonder material?
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"In order for graphene to have an impact commercially and be used to develop better-quality products, such as transistors, it not only needs to be cost-effective, but also environmentally friendly."
Rice lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash
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"Flash Joule heating for bulk graphene, developed in the Tour lab by Rice graduate student and lead author Duy Luong, improves upon techniques like exfoliation from graphite and chemical vapor deposition on a metal foil that require much more effort and cost to produce just a little graphene."
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[@Seeker]

Hi Seekers, thanks for watching! Want more on graphene? Check out this video about the substance's full potential here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGG9fpxuaNSIoM0

[@naMelaK]

Yeah, let's use the new stuff we don't control fully yet, in to our building materials. We got to beat our time record of dispersing fine particulates we have so far with stuff like plastics and PTFE's. Don't advertise this stuff, just report.

[@risingstar1796]

Why grephene strongest, most conductive known material?

[@zodsinclair8500]

Sooooooo a Renewable Energy Power Plant like the 1 in Ethiopia & that America University... kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZycoJeprdJsi5o - Ethiopia Turns trash into energy, clean water and bricks ! *All around the world* countries could build plants to use THEIR Waste as an Input to create POWER , & use this flash technique to make more money by extracting Graphene 1st, then burning the rest!...Nice! When do we start.

[@basitali445]

Please do a video on composites, Nano composites and graphene composites and their applications. Thank you

[@cosmosity1693]

That's because it is trash, unlike MXene!

[@Infernoblade1010]

This is absolutely amazing, but I gotta know, who's throwing away perfectly good hotdogs???

[@JIMHusky]

Was not good

[@ourochroma]

Cuz it’s trash food.. or maybe he’s feeding his trash monster

[@H3LLB0Y2403]

The prevailing sentiment over the meaning of the "expiration date" does that...

[@noel9817]

Exactly!

[@TheNewton]

any business with half a brain that can recognize when something isn't infact "perfectly good"; contact transfer, contamination, mispreperation, undercooking, on and on.

[@Aveeli]

2030: We can make it out of poop

[@INLF]

With this technique you can do it now.

[@MegaBanne]

2050: All humans die because we turned all available coal in to electronics and there was no food left.

[@the__dark_king]

That's what astronauts will do in space when. I mean they are already drinking water that was ...

[@uxleumas]

also, 4:34

[@steviebob4]

[Parental Advisory: Graphene Material]

[@ConstantChaos1]

Lmao

[@ralphjosephacobo8014]

*BADUM* *TISS*

[@apeiron1700]

Wow you must be fun at parties

[@DanteKG.]

This must be placed on every video about graphene

[@zchms9273]

Lol XD fard1!!1

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

I wish they could do the same with *antimatter*

[@kadblue2000]

Imagine they make an anti earth and we just get flashed out of existence

[@hermitcard4494]

Yes! We need better more efficient antimatter bombs and weapon EASIER AND FASTER to make.

[@rishikhandelwal331]

Yes i wanna die too

[@ZeroRelevance]

Eduardo Gutierrez I mean, if we don’t at least have the ability to destroy the planet at will, how are we ever going to live without fear. Oh wait...

[@lolgamez9171]

Antimatter is overrated. It's so good because it's 100% matter into energy, but there's another thing that does it better. Kugelblitz black holes are black holes made by having so much light in one spot it becomes a black hole. This allows one to create a very small black hole, which if you know anything about very small black holes, means it's shedding Hawking radiation brighter than the sun. Its 100% mass to energy conversion and fueled by any matter at all. Antimatter can take a seat.

[@MrChrisRab]

Thank you for reminding us that most discoveries require small incremental steps! Very true and often forgotten!

[@bhavyajain638]

@KolTony since when were you using this method? Can pieces of graphene be joint together by providing energy maybe through ir rays? I know that if it's possible the quality would be low but still better than nothing.

[@roy04]

9 years of dedication to a bet, you have my respect

[@EverythingScience]

Excited to see them finally finding a use for KZbin comments

[@danielwhyatt3278]

I’m glad we are finally moving towards the next step in producing graph been at the levels we require. Obviously this isn’t enough quite yet, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

[@trippgs]

Not to nitpick, but isn't that footage at 3:41 a nuclear power plant with two cooling towers?

[@smockydevil]

They always show cooling towers as if they are the ones releasing waste products of thermal power plants.... Common idiotic mistake! Well spotted ;]

[@blakepeary]

Ya, you're right

[@amberc5841]

That actually looks like a coal plant - clue 1 - there's a transmission system for large amounts of material (rails and blue pipes connecting) - nuclear plants tend to require significantly less supplies than coal plants as uranium lasts longer and is more energy dense than coal. Clue 2- the clouds coming off the plant/chimney stack. The chimney stack (long tall thin, not like the big two towers) looks to have smoke coming out and the top of the plant also. This would imply burning of a material. Clue 3- those towers are actually universal to power plants not just nuclear power plants, this is because both work under the same principle- heat is generated from a source which heats water which expands and this forces turbines to spin generating power. The super heated water or steam then must be cooled before it completes another cycle of the plant which is those towers, hence the universality of them. Didcot power station near oxford in England actually had those cooling towers even though it was a coal power plant

[@karlharvymarx2650]

@@amberc5841 I'll second clue 3. Cooling towers can be handy for cooling the hot water both types of plants use. I'd guess they're used when a large body of water can't be used as a heat sink. I'll add that even when smoke isn't visibly coming out of the smoke stacks at a coal plant, it is only a deficit in our ability to see a wider swath of the EM spectrum that keeps us from seeing it. If we could see in UV, sulfurous chemicals would be visible and look like billowing clouds of smoke. If we could see IR we could see CO2 billowing out too. While it may not be strictly accurate to show water vapor clouds rising from any cooling tower as if it were pollutants pouring out of a smokestack, it is a way of illustrating something very real which our eyes happen to be too limited to see. Appropriately made cameras "see" it just fine.

[@Mondo_Monchi]

The image of a bunch of people sitting around resticking tape together made me laugh more than it should have

[@patty4449]

YES.... I finaly can become something useful :)

[@jameschristian1664]

Your not carbon, arent you?

[@user-zq6pj5jo8j]

@@jameschristian1664 Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, CARBON, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

[@jameschristian1664]

@@user-zq6pj5jo8j oh good to know...

[@spottemucci3601]

Trash he neant

[@roushentertainment5706]

www.worldsafetytrust.com is using graphene to produce medical and industrial face masks! We will also be manufacturing graphene water purification systems within 2 months.

[@xdendgame944]

2:19 perfectly good hotdogs :(

[@ShadowCorgo]

In other words, I can turn myself into Graphene?

[@user-iu1xg6jv6e]

Which one are you, Cockroach or dog poop?

[@ShadowCorgo]

@@user-iu1xg6jv6e Yes

[@lasarith2]

Joseph Mateo if you heat yourself up to about 8000c then yeah.

[@electronresonator8882]

with enough heat, human can transform into gas

[@robingarvin-mack]

@@electronresonator8882 Virtually everything will become gaseous with enough heat. *{;-) **_R_*

[@professordanfurmanek3732]

Another really terrific Seeker! I truly believe someday you will look back upon your prediction of high temperature superconductors as well as supercomputers based on this technology and simply say..... Yeah!! Nailed it!!!

[@Freakingbean]

"The future has a way of happening when you least expect it" --Albert Einstein

[@jrno93]

"Shut up" - -socrates

[@Freakingbean]

@@jrno93 lol

[@Dyl_Cam]

I don't think that's a quote lmao

[@becauseican5567]

@@jrno93 you sir made me laugh. Take my like

[@robertodeleon-gonzalez9844]

This reminds me of something about buckminsterfullerenes (carbon-60 and -72). Initially, this form of carbon was extremely hard to come by, produced in tiny amounts by lasers vaporizing carbon. Then some people at a university had an idea: Could they make it with a high-voltage electric source? Somebody recalled that there were auto body repair courses at that school, so they went and borrowed an arc welding machine. In short order, they learned that buckminsterfullerenes could be manufactured in large amounts by this method - but in so doing, they wrecked the welding machine! I wonder how they broke the news to the head of the Physics Department...

[@user-ig3vf9mw7p]

I love watching these! Always super interesting

[@foxythunder481]

Graphene’s cool and all, but can we talk about how f’ing gorgeous that shot is at 3:41?

[@sensiblewheels]

Thanks for pointing that out! It's beautiful

[@nichsa8984]

brought dark matter injection

[@thetrollpatrol8799]

Great to see Dr. James Tour’s work publicized and making progress. I was just listening to him speaking on how unknown and impossible abiogenesis appears.

[@miscellaneousNsuch]

Awesome news! Thanks for the update.

[@Necrobin]

I'm still hyped for this material. I can't wait but it looks like I have to wait a couple years longer.

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

I know, I've been following it for years. Been saying we should call this the "graphene age" for awhile now

[@MrJohnsonofPC]

Been watching the research of graphene for a few years now and I love the possible applications of this stuff.

[@SIyMarbo]

Why did i hear Linus at first?

[@notthereallukas6357]

Why was a nuclear power plant shown when they talked about releasing co2 into the atmosphere? They do not do that, they realise steam.

[@Eventwow]

I remember reading a science magazine back in 2003. The topic of that mag was OLEDs this size of a OLED then was about pinky size. Now look at it. I say another 2-5 years graphene will be on on a small scale mass production.

[@videoomaster]

Cement that is 35% stronger? that means we can build taller sky scrapers!

[@Barskor1]

Or ground scrapers for as much as we reach up for living and workspace we can go down.

[@craigcorson3036]

The strength of concrete is not the limiting factor in the height of skyscrapers, the frames of which are generally - if not universally - steel anyway.

[@nyaluogowalter136]

A step closer to space elevators

[@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179]

Wow, you really don't have that much of imagination do you.

[@farifurido]

@@nyaluogowalter136 can predict that future already

[@dougg1075]

When you burn paper in a trash pile and those wispy black pieces float up and away, is that graphene?

[@bread5366]

No it's not

[@aboveanonymous4810]

I don't know is it? :/

[@harrisonloh9901]

Imagine not, probably would be closer to amorphous carbon, more chaotic and less ordered bonding and arranging of the atoms i.e. more sp3 than sp2 carbond bonding present, or whatever structure is in the cellulose/wood used to make the paper pulp. Also probably other elements including oxygen and who knows what else. Maybe an interesting way to pass the time though if anyone has access to a raman spectrometer and an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer 👍. Or a google search.

[@TheLiquidpsy]

you can also make it from Hemp! would love to see a video about that

[@mkivy]

Thank you for this! Promising!

[@benl8962]

Cant wait till weve got graphene production down, that will change so much!

[@vig3434]

New favourite YT channel. Wow.

[@basitali445]

Please do a video on composites, Nano composites and graphene composites and their applications. Thank you

[@AnAn-sv3jw]

Thanks for making short videos

[@inventor121]

so basically we just need to zap coal with a Tig welder.

[@graham1034]

I know some companies are using graphene in the epoxy used in carbon fiber layers, specifically in high-end bicycles. Apparently it makes for lighter and stronger frames.

[@augustinelopez1508]

Sleeker bring so many great topic like this one. Thanks Guys For Your Efforts 😛📷✌🎶

[@hannesaltenfelder4302]

Finally a video, that tells me the flash-temperature. Is it possible to go too hot? And how would you produce a big piece of pure graphene if you only had many many flakes?

[@carrollsanders9376]

I AM more interested in producing molded graphene, Rice uses a vacuum chamber, I would use a high pressure reaction and a chamber to do it.

[@robingarvin-mack]

*_'Energy Dense Batteries'_* which possibly could either increase EVs' ranges or make them lighter by virtue of requiring fewer cells sounds hopeful. *{;-) **_R_*

[@deeprecce9852]

Hope there is a follow up video on the status of this research..thanks

[@ChrisBullock1978]

hey is plastic can be used to use the pacific garbage patch and change all that to graphene. I think there is an autonomic garbage collector that is trying to collect all that and instead of recycling it use it do dissolve all the plastic

[@magnitudematrix2653]

Try using a magnet with the flash process to increase the surface area.

[@stopscammingman]

Brilliant!!

[@corujariousa]

Interesting. I wonder about the energy needed to use this process in large scale and the quality of the graphene that can be produced. Finding new ways of using carbon in environmentally friendly manner is encouraging. Nonetheless, we still have to find answers about the environmental impact graphane itself may produce. Thanks for the video. I hope you'll be able to address the points I raised in the future.

[@robertlee8805]

Hey. Its been a year since this video show. I wonder if they found a way to zap plastics into graphene economically and fast? We sure need this Graphene now more than ever and to use up all of the plastic waste around the world. If this method could truly become a super conductive for computers, electronics. And EVs.

[@corujariousa]

@@robertlee8805 Agreed. This is one of the technology developments I follow. It doesn't seem we have a scalable process yet.

[@robertlee8805]

@@corujariousa Hopefully we'll get some geniuses to come up with ways to get this going. And hoping they'll move fast enough to get it to market sometime within 5-10 years.

[@coyote102076]

I am curious though what would happen if you were to blend this with magnesium alloy, Or is that even possible? If it was possible it would make an incredibly tough skin for aircraft or spacecraft.

[@shanemartin2491]

Is graphene omnidirectional in UTS or more like carbon fibre when you have it axial strong and can be layered in sheets to make it bi directionally strong? Or like Wood where you orient according to the grain? Or like a laminar engineered timber?

[@butterchuggins5409]

Interesting development! I wonder if this technology could be used to make biochar. It seems very similar to pyrolysis.

[@AlucardaPapere]

How big of a sheet of flash graphene would you get from 1kg?

[@remliqa]

I thought they can only produce graphene flakes and not sheest at the moment with this method?

[@joelayoub2774]

Where do they get the energy to charge the capacitor?

[@BarryObama666]

we are very slowly (and quickly in some ways) creating our own evolutionary replacements.

[@Yogggi]

Nice touch that they used kelvin instead of celsius or Fahrenheit

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

galaxy brain is everyone gets mad it's not in the "right" units

[@fungaioliproductions4619]

Back to the Future is coming to reality!! Yess!!

[@TheVigilantStewards]

So did he make the cockroaches and dog poop into biochar before trying to make it? This is really cool, didn't know it was in headphones, building materials, or helmets yet.

[@zaza-ik5ws]

Welcome to your monthly graphene video

[@randomdude7386]

Correct me if I'm wrong cause as I understand it I could go ahead let my toilet flush everything in a superzied version of their machine and make quit a lotta money?!

[@entielle]

Seeker : what about the bi-product from plasma garbage disposal systems?

[@ConstantChaos1]

I mean i know it took a while to figure it out but I wouldn't necessarily call them trash lol

[@eisenklad]

2:19 is that stock footage of people throwing away hotdogs that look fine?

[@nasu5750]

What exactly is the setup of that process??

[@radaldk]

I really hope that this, and the "wax worm" will be more prominent soon, instead of having so much trash as we do now

[@nolan4339]

So, will a graphene coated wire have increased transmission capability, strength, corrosion resistance or decreased electrical resistive properties?

[@HeavyMoonshine19]

Great technology right here!

[@didyasaysomethin2me]

"... a lot less banana peels laying around." Turning trash into "fuel"? Ha ha that sounds like a scene straight out of Back to the Future. 😂

[@slevinshafel9395]

2:30 why we dont use CVD(vaporization deposite) and use CO2 frome atmosphere or city polution?

[@seththecat9317]

Soooo to make it bigger you size it up in a way it stays as effective, not easy but obv the first route they’d take, just need that even instant 3000 he was talking abt

[@MogulSuccess]

could a large building size version be used to make larger sheets? @seeker?

[@SeanPGribbons]

I heard this shit can keep a lightbulb going for years

[@amboscoboinik]

Is it me or seeker went from doing videos about outstanding breakthroughs to outstanding videos trying to make everything look awesome?

[@TheCarnivalguy]

For research purposes, I volunteer the trash that moved in next door to my mom.

[@samuel-br.man__3571]

The idea: put your pop between something that can be heated up to 3000 kelvin and here you go, an ultimate bulletproof cheap armor

[@Jkauppa]

nice fireworks plasma flash, high voltage direct normal capacitors, up to ni-cd specific energy density

[@CreepyChappy]

Who the hell throws away good hotdogs ??

[@DrSanaullahkhan98]

Excellent...

[@JawslinJabers]

Disgustingly cool. A way to use our waist to save nature and greatly benefit us. In the words of Jason Nesmeth: We'll do that!

[@benmaynard3059]

I've heard that the paper behind this is possibly questionable. I don't pretend to understand the arguments that were asserted against this but it sounded interesting and someone needs to verify its validity.

[@test-mm7bv]

get to the point we're here for the novel method of production not an intro about graphene - that's not news

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

just skip ahead then, not everyone knows what it is

[@KeeperOfKale222]

We have been waiting so long for graphene. It seems like it's indefinitely being researched but still nothing commercially available.

[@Javiarive]

This is the beginning of something great

[@icystorm9968]

I though we like things THICC!

[@user-zq6pj5jo8j]

Just our women..:)

[@jascrandom9855]

Imagine having Armor made of Graphene.

[@unagisama5476]

ain't novel even the "large quantities" part.. I remembered the research team long ago that promoted their work using cd laser scriber.. and some youtubers making fairly good amount graphene out of different of carbon sources like sugar over the years .. all using no tape method

[@lordcrunk4790]

Manufacturing will come back to the US in the form of room sized multi material smart 3d printers that can print: computers, clothing, mattresses, soap etc, etc, etc.

[@paladin0654]

Nice hair cut AND good video

[@_b-e-n_]

I need that single atom thick goodness 😩

[@MushVPeets]

Me too, but preferably in big flat sheets you can make stuff out of. This looks like it just makes more little flakes. Useful, but boring. :(

[@novoscorp7275]

Slightly off-topic material processing question. How practical would it be to break materials down useing vibration then filter it with a screen wire mesh far a consistant feed stock for a 3D printer ? Bare in mind the Earth breaks materials down in a simuliar fashion.

[@rakeshto6891]

Hey man your Right Side of the body lean towards right more then left side... i have that problem... It is caused by regular sleeping habits with your left side...

[@aqeel77za]

Wiawis aka win&win archery made their top of the line recurve bow containing carbon fibre and graphene....

[@Digi4DD]

Thinner walls, so you can hear neighbours breathe, not only talk ;d Unless it will increase soundproofing too

[@roseonani2997]

Dont you remember the cvd rolling technique from MIT . It worked

[@Ibrahimmuhammed97]

I wanted to be a graphene based products entrepreneur,.but the slow pace of material availability is killing the dreams

[@StrengthScholar0]

@zztop3000 perpetual motion machines have been proven to be impossible. You wasted $50

[@yanlopez674]

@zztop3000 dude, you are familiar with the laws of thermodynamics right?

[@ailblentyn]

Graphene is always good for some retro hype. Can the same process make carbon nanotubes, I wonder?

[@nyx211]

2:20 indeed.

[@snowoball413]

Research unlocked: You can now make Graphene using Trash

[@user-zq6pj5jo8j]

Who knew that #2 pencils could be worth so much?

[@LionsInBoots]

Create a Flash Graphene convertor, and suck carbon out of the atmosphere, pressurise the gas into a pure form, and use the Flash Graphene convertor on a mass scale, not only reducing our carbon output, but creating an expensive, tough, wonder material, from just the atmosphere.

[@jamescochran3413]

"Graph-ic" Classic

[@iforget6940]

Who thaught about mr fusion from back to the future getting engery from trash but graphene what about cleaning the ocean I know we can do this with graphene but when will do at a mass scale this seems more important then motorcycle helmets and headphones

[@off_Planet]

Finally, a sensible use for your library of videos.

[@NoNTr1v1aL]

Finally, I can be of some use.

[@Xeno_Bardock]

If you use electricity at same frequency carbon atoms vibrate at, chances are you can make graphene out of carbon very quickly and more efficiently by shattering carbon like a glass.