How The World's Strongest Material Is Made From Coffee Grounds (Flash Graphene)

In this video we explore the recently discovered process for creating flash graphene: the first economical method to make high quality turbostratic graphene in bulk. Using this method it's possible to convert nearly any carbon source (recycled materials, coal, carbon black, etc.) directly into graphene.
This was discovered by a graduate student, Duy Loung of Rice labs, as detailed in this article (videos of the process are contained within): news.rice.edu/2020/01/27/rice-...
The first Flash Graphene article as published in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
An updated article detailing Flash Graphene morphologies: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsn...
As a result of these discoveries Dr. James Tour (the lead chemist at Rice labs), and his team have founded the company Universal Matter Inc. in their endeavor to scale and automate the flash graphene process for commercial production. In only a few months they have multiplied their methods to produce 6 grams with each 30-100ms discharge of 48 high voltage capacitors, in a scalable model that may produce as much as 1 ton per day. Company website: www.universalmatter.com/
Here are two excellent videos demonstrating the electrochemical exfoliation method for producing graphene in bulk:
The Thought Emporium: • Easy Graphene Made in ...
Robert Murray-Smith: • Graphene - A Simple Me...
Thank you very much to all of my Patreon supporters who have contributed to help me create videos like this one. A special thanks to my top Patrons: Enzo Breda Lee, Jon Hartmann, TheBackyardScientist & Eugene Pakhomov! / nighthawkprojects
-Ben

[@luongxuanduy1001]

Thank you Ben for the great demonstration. These type of DIY demonstration was my inspiration for the discovery. Keep up good work! By the way, you might want to pretreat the coffee at multiple lower voltage treatments first to remove the organic volatile before the real flash.

[@WizardOfCheese]

great job

[@BlacknRedSN95]

you are going to create a public company that we can invest in right?

[@luongxuanduy1001]

@@BlacknRedSN95 Yes sir, we are planning to change the world to a better place.

[@mudkip_btw]

@@luongxuanduy1001 good luck! Great discovery!

[@troyw5832]

Fish tank ATIMAT experiment next the coolest thing and scary stuff dimensions. You know ???At home cheap like thank the grad☺😊😀😁😂5 Smile's

[@thethoughtemporium]

First, off I wanna say great video. But I looked up the paper and have some huge concerns. I've actually done a lot of work with graphene and what they're demonstrating is... odd. And frankly seems a bit cherry picked. Things that are interesting: ease of dispersability, and the seeming strength increase when added to stuff. Things I find concerning: those electron microscope pictures and some key notes. When you look at the microscope images, and then their simulations, what they've made isn't really graphene per say, and especially not graphene in an ideal form. Graphene at it's strongest are big flat sheet. What they made are weird onion shaped chunks. At least, in the images they chose to show. In that mixture there's very very likely to be various other carbon materials; nanotubes, other fullerenes, carbon onions, and random amorphous debris. They did no purification to remove any of that stuff and when mixed into a solution, it'll all just look black. Only a few fullerenes have a distinct color in solution. So mixing it with a solvent will look like you've made a graphene solution when in reality it's just shmoo floating around. In fact, when you look at the cuvettes of "graphene solution", they look more than 50% full of sediment, with only a very small amount of liquid on top. This could explain the strength increase, but also the error bars on that test are fricken massive, their sample size is 3, and they use a weird surfactant to dissolve the "graphene" which they have no negative control to compare to. Like there's no concrete sample with just the surfactant and no graphene. So either the mismash of components is what's making it strong, or the surfactant is, or they just didn't run the test enough times, or any of 100 other reasons that sample looked stronger. ALSO, they show a side by side comparison of "commercial graphene" vs FG. Why... is the commercial sample clear? Like not just clear, but with no sediment at the bottom? To me that screams "one of these vials just has water in it because we didn't add anything to it". Because any commercial sample should dissolve at least a little, and the rest would sink to the bottom. Unless they're showing supernatant? I dunno, very weird. Also the way they're solubilizing things is odd. They're using this weird surfactant pluronic 127 which I'd never heard of but I suspect makes things appear a lot more "soluable" or at least dispersable than they really are. Further, saying "graphite is the 3d form" isn't really accurate. Graphene are big 2d sheets of carbon. Graphite is simple those sheets stacked up. If anything, the stuff they made is the "3d" form because it's a jumbled mess of interconnected layers and closer to amorphous carbon. This will make it utterly useless at being turned into fibers as you won't get the large sheets forming a liquid crystal in solution which is required for that. Also they don't talk about the oxygen content of the "graphene". If what they made was highly oxidized, then that alone explain why it's soluable in water. Graphene oxide is already water soluable. I've got a bottle of it. So if that's what they made, then it explains some of it's weirder properties. All in all, none of this is NOT a criticism of your video. The video was great. But their paper to me, was super super sloppy and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Especially when it comes to things like graphene, there's a lot of really crappy research that turns out to be useless on further study.

[@davemwangi05]

Soluable.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Thanks for your comments! You certainly have way more depth of knowledge in this area than I do. I'll be playing with the process more myself and see what comes of it. Most of the graphene research I've looked at is really lacking in side by side performance comparisons of various other graphenes and graphites.

[@hiftylonghead892]

And the paper was published back in January, i would assume companies would have started (or talked about starting) any form of mass production lines using this process by now. But nope, no word about it at all. So im also calling bs

[@SunnySzetoSz2000]

I think at least this is a good start....

[@thethoughtemporium]

@@Nighthawkinlight Ya for sure, give it a go. I'm excited to see your results. But ya this is what I mean. Most graphene papers... suck. Also, making graphene can literally be done in a blender or ultrasonic bath at many-gram scale. A solution of tannic acid (green tea works as a lazy substitute) is mixed with a bit of graphite powder, then you just ultrasound (or blend) the hell out of it for 2-4 hours. A mixture of acetone and water also works but I don't remember the exact ratio and that's obvious more sensitive to heat because the acetone will evap off. Or you can oxidize graphite first using the Tour method, then ultrasound it briefly to get a stable solution of graphene oxide in water. Lots of way to do this that'll produce big sheets of graphene and not weird clumpies.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

You guys remember when I was making videos about paper crossbows?

[@maskedpotatoes]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@relicruiner8232]

yea.. also.. graphene crossbow?

[@atompower6267]

you came a long way brother , keep it up !

[@RaviolistRavioli]

That was bait to get us hooked into the real stuff

[@_Niels__]

Of course. That's around the time when I subscribed!

[@tf3confirmedbuthv54]

-Coffee addict -Electronics Hobbyist “Oh yeah, it’s all coming together”

[@robotslug]

Uh oh, graphene optimism. You really painted that target on your back brightly with this one. ;)

[@Nighthawkinlight]

My fingers may fall off with how tightly I have them crossed...But I am optimistic!

[@robotslug]

@@Nighthawkinlight I have the highest of hopes, however I have learned over the years that graphene is the sweet spot for crushing them expertly. This could also be something that could help fuel a surge in renewable energy now that I think about it, if graphene becomes cheap enough that electricity costs are what affects the profit margins significantly, the industrial complex that would surely form around this material would surely push us forward in the direction of cheap renewable energy. Awe man, now I'm excited. What have you done?!

[@websterri]

@@robotslug "Renewable" energy is the dumbest possible application for this. Come on.

[@robotslug]

@@websterri I mean, expanding and hardening our energy infrastructure, while reducing cost and at the same time reducing our destruction and poisoning of the earth to a dull roar at the same time doesn't seem dumb at all. Not to mention I only brought it up as a supplemental benefit to the expansion of a graphene industry. I never brought it up as an "application" of graphene tech, but if I had then I would absolutely support it, as the transition to renewable energy is one of the most important hurdles humanity faces currently. Energy storage and efficiency of production could be greatly benefitted by graphene.

[@anonymouse2428]

@nighthawkinlight, I sincerely hope that you're successful in commercialising this new technique. I also hope that you'll continue to educate us even when you don't need youtube money

[@K3Flyguy]

I wish you had been my neighbor when I was a kid! My dad didn't have time nor was interested in my questions as a kid. I saved up money from walking beans and mowing grass for a high quality microscope, and then put together a seriously awesome chemistry set. I successfully made nitroglycerin, built a smelter and refined gun range lead, made ingots of aluminum cans and various junk metals found around the neighborhood, I made hydrogen and oxygen for various burning and oxidation experiments, made chemical fertilizer for my garden and never blew my family's basement! Moved on to making various solar concentrators, cookers, burners and such. Got into magnetism, electronics and radio wave theory. My point is information presented in the way you present it was not available back then to but a very few lucky kids with overachiever dad's. Thank you for doing the teaching you are doing! You may well inspire and help some young inquiring minds to further explore areas of research and be the genesis of new technologies! Subscribed and liked! Thank you again, well done!!!

[@afaqahmad9364]

wao

[@afaqahmad9364]

great struggle for knowledge i appreciate. And would love to have that passion for my goals.

[@Frendh]

I am more impressed by Rice Labs sharing this information than them discovering it.

[@cayrex]

A bit late, but anyway. Haha good one. They have patent (2019) out,... so is available to public. If they didn't have a patent,.... then you will not get any info out from RIce 😁😁

[@0v_x0]

Apparently they omitted a couple things, i watched another channel (tech ingredients) follow the directions much more closely and I recall they had to figure a couple things out on their own that apparently wasn't in the paper, heh. Really great video btw if interested.

[@_B_K_]

That capacitor bank looks terrifying.

[@Barskor1]

Lighting in a bottle

[@TheARN44]

Terrifyingly awesome

[@-NGC-6302-]

I wonder if the ones StyroPyro made for his Tesla coils (& other loud and dangerous things) are larger

[@Mrjoecreeper]

@@-NGC-6302- Doesn't matter if Styros is 10x larger, or 100x smaller, it'd still way more terrifying than NightHawk's

[@EG-cs3wv]

Look the ruby laser video on the Styropyro channel. It will blow your mind and give you nightmares ;)

[@Pyrosparker]

This kind of project just screams Applied Science, he's even got the microscope needed to see the end result. Someone get him on this bandwagon too!

[@hodekondrej]

Upon seeing the capacitor bank my thoughts first turned towards Styropyro

[@Manboy133too]

@@hodekondrej The worlds greatest collaboration would only be a matter of proper scheduling and knowledge of their contact info

[@DarkSkiesCC]

@@hodekondrej I didn't expect to see anybody mention that but when he said he wasn't able to operate something of that size safely styropyro also instantiy came to mind

[@blindsniper9794]

He needs to get the SlowMo guys in on it to to film the process

[@jimurrata6785]

Ben's a Patron on this channel, isn't he?

[@WayOutWestx2]

Excellent - thanks, Ben

[@AmidaNyorai48]

😀

[@BuckeyeNut123]

This is my preferred style of content: Immediately get into the material and cover it in a very straightforward and easy to follow form. Thank you.

[@aaronfreed32]

I've been watching this channel since the very start and I've always been impressed with your content. But, it's videos like these that make me remember the old days and think about how much this channel (and myself) have grown. Such an awesome channel, please keep doing you!

[@redcastlefan]

I think most of us cant even begin to comprehend how it feels to live through a big world changing advancement. It must be so wild and jarring. Imagine how people felt about electronics at first. Im glad that I just might be able to experience a great leap in humanity in my lifetime.

[@UltimatePwnageNL]

If you where born before about ~1995 you still remember life before smartphones, widespread internet access, and effective search engines. I think that already counts. And the renewable energy + electric vehicles transition might fully happen within your (and hopefully also my) lifetime! And asteroid mining making lots of resources relatively unlimited!

[@de14jabs]

@@UltimatePwnageNL yup, I still have my OG xbox and halo. Still works and there gave still sends shivers down my back with the intro music

[@ahhjuice]

Hatagashira maybe we can add graphine producing capacitor to the elecric cars in order to pay as you drive financing. Just sayin

[@N4CR5]

Imagine it happening, then everyone lying about the guy who did it and not being able to understand that he is correct. Nikola Tesla was his name.

[@redcastlefan]

@@N4CR5 lol a Tesla fanboy nerd

[@socketman]

You know you're going to have to do a batch of flash graphine infused starlite now right?

[@socketman]

@ニンコー it is thermally conductive but thermally resistant and thermal shock resistant (thermally tough), it might make a good cover layer on top of the starlite maybe? It's a for fun experiment.

[@stspy212]

@ニンコー I think it would actually be fine. Since the flakes would be mixed into more or less homogenously, what you'd probably end up seeing is heat that more quickly penetrates deeper initially (as the graphene helps transmit the heat deeper into the material), but then the added strength from the graphene in the carbon foam that is produced should help this foam layer last longer. End result would be a more durable starlite that can take a beating for longer, despite initially generating foam faster.

[@haidandurham8630]

This channel (and I've been saying this for years) is an ever expanding repertoire of knowledge. I hope yt is still a thing in 20 years so I can show my kids all these amazing content creators.

[@cashinadvance-c.i.a.entert3007]

Sir, you have No idea how much I appreciate your videos. I’ve been expanding my knowledge of many things in many ways lately and you explain the most complex stuff very easily to understand and I wasn’t planning on learning the content of the first video that I saw of yours, but I gave it a few seconds and low and behold I was learning serious major stuff in less than one minute. You are Awesome! THANK YOU!

[@TaylorIserman]

I’d love to see a part 2 where he uses the capacitor bank and tests blocks of concrete to show the difference

[@jerickodoggo9595]

Whoa! Yeah, just sat down with my cup of coffee. Perfect!

[@kevingouldrup9265]

The most exciting development I've heard in a long time!

[@nickg5250]

Saw that giant capacitor bank (a major flex) and clicked immediately. In another era, you'd be the top show on PBS. Amazing production value of consistently amazing videos.

[@pocket83]

In your reading, did you find any alternatives to carbon for producing a substance with similar properties? I mean, there are tons of other hexagonal atomic configurations. If we're so hung up on using carbon every time, we might be overlooking a (probably still difficult) possibility that could at least work until we crack the case. It's just a logical precept that if everyone's stuck in a doorway, maybe it's prudent to go around. Sorry to offer up lateral thinking as though it were an original idea. lol. I once worked with an engineer who believed it probable that life on other planets would be boron-based. Garbage speculation if you ask me, but who knows? Simple geometries can give rise to some incredibly divergent emergent properties. Either case, congratulations on becoming one of the bright spots here on KZbin; using this medium for furthering the experimental cusp is some seriously solid content. Mad respect, and keep tinkering ;)

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I think I've read about silicon as an alternate for similar structures, but I haven't looked into it much. If i get the setup going properly I might try throwing some other things in the tube and see what comes out. Not a bad idea!

[@QuantumSeanyGlass]

monolayer molybdenum disulfide is supposed to be promising for electronics applications

[@louishermann7676]

Heard of boron-nitride (iirc) that has similar strength but massively reduced brittleness compared to graphene.

[@doodman3502]

Graphene would be the ultimate, carbon bonds are the strongest because they have 4 electrons and need 4 more to fulfill the rule of octets. With 4 bonds it makes it optimum. So think of diamond, thats pure carbon, which then decomposes to graphite, graphene would be like having a superbendable flat version of diamond. So diamonds can be broken because of how they are but they are hard, but adding it bendability means that any force applied would disperse over the surface. Image graphene body armor like multiple layers thick. It would be way better then even black widow spider silk.

[@pocket83squared]

​@@doodman3502 The question posed related to carbon _alternatives._ Remember that analogy about being stuck in a doorway? I had asked about another way out of the burning building, but you're still explaining to me the ways in which the doorway is preferable. Sorry to jump on you over this, but consider: such responses are thought-stoppers. Ask a forum how to avoid buying an 'x' by instead using a 'y' and (nine out of ten times) they'll love to tell you about how 'x' works best; such conformity is antithetical to creativity, no matter how spot-on a given re-statement of the ideal solution is. So~ thanks for adding the peripherally-related explanation, but you didn't RESPOND TO THE QUESTION.

[@forestlampcraft472]

COOL!!!

[@Agapy8888]

Love your videos. Clear, precise and free of annoying music.

[@Peter-pu7bo]

Thank you and everyone for sharing this technology.

[@origamerking6927]

The moment i saw the huge capacitor bank i just thought to myself: coil guns.... For your next video you sould make a coil gun it will be so awesome!

[@MrTubeuser12]

even better, a rail gun. :)

[@Hephera]

@@MrTubeuser12 you've got that around the wrong way. coil guns are better than rail guns. they can achieve much higher velocities

[@Barskor1]

@@Hephera Computer controlled multi coils

[@KiwiClawDHA]

@@MrTubeuser12 I was going to say railgun as soon as I say coil gun.

[@StefsEngineering]

Cool! Seems to me to be a nice project for Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) He has all the equipment needed including a SEM to check the results

[@crashfactory]

heck yeah!

[@Muonium1]

SEM is probably not what you want here. TEM or STM would be more suitable for searching for graphene fragments I'd think.

[@StefsEngineering]

@@Muonium1 Could be, I'm not familiar with the other methods. I am referring to the suggestion made in the video itself about the lack of such a device to measure the results :)

[@TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Dude! Every time I watch your channel I am inspired!

[@FEEDMEKITTENS]

This video was amazingly written. Super informative and concise. I love it!

[@KeystoneScience]

Amazing video!! :)

[@KeystoneScience]

as per usual 😉

[@whynotdean8966]

Graphene is the fusion technology of material scientists. It's always 40 years in the future.

[@nicksalvatore5717]

I mean, we haven’t hit 40 years from 2004 yet

[@macicoinc9363]

@@nicksalvatore5717 Graphene was theorized to exist in the 40s

[@matthewstover6789]

That’s amazing! I could see this process becoming automated generating tons of material.

[@justaguy6100]

Congratulations Rice Owls! This is a underrated school by most standards outside of those "in the know." The Moog synthesizer was developed there. Thanks for the demo, I certainly hope we can count on the wonders of graphene changing the way we live very soon.

[@victoryfirst2878]

I love your comment on the graduate student that made this possible. Professors at universities might be great at teaching something but they are most certainly not hands on usually. This is a case of the student being more resourceful than the teacher for sure.

[@josefmuller86]

NightHawkin light then: fooling around NightHawk in light now: interesting experiments TheKingofRandom then: clever diy science experiments TheKingofRandom now: Casting a RAINBOW GUMMY CHICKEN

[@heyitsgowcow]

RIP Grant

[@Draakdarkmaster6]

yeah i know... ffs

[@stevelorenz6091]

excellent of you to thank those WHO SENT YOU INFO WELL DONE

[@wo2183]

Amazing Ben! Thanks so much for sharing this!

[@wholock0001]

Did my chemistry final self directed lab on Flash Graphene!! This is super cool!!

[@1179125]

"this is a poor man's way to do it" **show the giant bank of heavy duty capacitors**

[@joshentheosparks7492]

They cost less than $10 each. The whole rig costs about $300‐$600 depending on safety redundancy. The 1000 Amp relay is the costly bit

[@paulmaydaynight9925]

@@joshentheosparks7492 GB Victorian age Wimshurst Machine ,leyden jars, aluminium can caps, conductive ink, time, effort, result...

[@xandersafrunek2151]

this is brilliant.. I have never heard of this

[@2.7petabytes]

Man!! Your well thought out content is top notch! Always such interesting info you have!

[@spankrider93]

You, Sir, are a freaking genius! I admire your knowledge, I admire the way you think and I admire that you can build those things with mostly cheap components. Keep on digging on this stuff! I really like your work. I'm am engineer myself and I would love to make something like the Acheson process.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

In this case I hardly did a thing. Just showing off what Rice labs is pioneering!

[@spankrider93]

@@Nighthawkinlight yes You're right, but I know you're building a device that can do the exact thing you described. And I'm also thinking on the wood Gas generator, or the cotton thread light bulb... There are so many videos to think of. Just keep on doing this exact content - if you have fun doing it! (Considering how well made and perfectly explained your videos are you really love doing it) I really like them!

[@artiomvas]

@@Nighthawkinlight There is a site called Sci-Hub that gives access to paywalled papers for free. from wiki: Sci-Hub was founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011 in Kazakhstan in response to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls. [...] In June 2020, a study found that articles downloaded from Sci-Hub were cited 1.72 times more than papers not downloaded from Sci-Hub. [...] Sci-Hub obtains paywalled articles using leaked credentials. The source of the credentials used by Sci-Hub is unclear. Some appear to have been donated, some were apparently sold before going to Sci-Hub, and some appear to have been obtained via phishing and were then used by Sci-Hub. Elbakyan denied personally sending any phishing emails and said, "The exact source of the passwords was never personally important to me." According to The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog established by the Society for Scholarly Publishing whose members are involved in legal action against Sci-Hub, credentials used by Sci-Hub to access paywalled articles are correlated to access of other information on university networks (such as cyber spying on universities) and credential sales in black markets. Several articles have reported that Sci-Hub has penetrated the computer networks of more than 370 universities in 39 countries. These include more than 150 institutions in the US, more than 30 in Canada, 39 in the UK and more than 10 in Sweden. The universities in the UK include Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and King's College, London. [...] As of 27 July 2020, Sci-Hub website self-reported that the cumulative number of downloads from the database exceeded one billion, that the average number of downloads per day is 300-600 thousand, and that the database continues its expansion into the pre-digital age, particularly into journal articles published prior to 1980. Among achievements in 2019, Sci-Hub reports the publication of about 15,000 letters by Charles Darwin, most of which were not available for free, despite the fact that their copyrights expired over 100 years ago. Sci-Hub also states that they are developing a free search engine that would allow keyword search of the full pdf texts in its database. Ms. Elbakian also reported plans to allow access to Supplemental Information of journal articles in addition to the main texts, which are already available.

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

@@Nighthawkinlight My dude, are you so far past average that you don't even recognise you're extra intelligence? Give yourself some credit, you're a genius!

[@Rambleon444]

Could be a game-changer, bigger than lithium-ion batteries!

[@mericagunsfreedomandlove.8985]

Solid state buttery mixed with graphene.

[@ChauNyan]

How long do they last?

[@mericagunsfreedomandlove.8985]

@@ChauNyan were not entirely sure. But the lowest is about 20× than the best lithium.

[@wayne02058]

I really appreciate your gift if bringing these complicated concepts for the masses thank you,

[@silasdense4725]

Have always enjoyed your channel. Thank you for such great content, the time, & effort you put into these videos. (and the fact that you're easy on the eyes helps 😉)

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

_"But it's too hard to make in large quantities for it to be put to widespread use. I think that's about to change..."_ Who among us can say we were fans of graphene before it was cool? 😁

[@fengyouliu8937]

Syntaxus Dogmata there is 0 imposters among us

[@signalworks]

well like literally all of us lol

[@loverlei79]

It took me until the age of 40, to finally get a science teacher I can learn from...

[@bobbailey4954]

Well done explaining this process of making graphene. I’m very excited about any new materials development.

[@ericstorms3020]

Such an exquisite video with much thought and work out into it you have truly done a great job my good sir

[@dibblethwaite]

Stupidly dangerous massive capacitor array. That sounds like a job for electro boom.

[@UnicaLuce]

collab collab collab!

[@mute8s]

I saw the thread brought up by The Thought Emporium and he brings up some interesting insights. Maybe get in touch with Ben over at applied science since he has an electron microscope to maybe get some images of what you make.

[@mrstijntje]

Hi Ben, I just wanted to say that back about 15 years ago I was a frequent visitor of many things you put online regarding fireworks techniques, compositions, etc.. It's awesome to see the same name still around on the internet and to see 'the face of..' -haha. Keep up the good work and see you around.

[@fukuokainternationaldemocr1974]

Outstanding. Already love your work.

[@NeedaNewAlias]

First Starlight now cheap Graphene? What is next? Fusion in a glass of water?

[@AKAtheA]

you can literally do that in a home workshop of course the pitiful efficiency of said process is orders of magnitude far from actually getting more power then you have to put in, but you can do fusion at home

[@carneeki]

I think Tech Ingredients is doing a multi-part series along those lines. MP has a few videos up on construction of the low pressure tubes and different gases through them, as well as powering it. But as already commented, we are unlikely to see it as a form of power generation thanks to poor efficiency; though it is still a cool experiment.

[@rionmotley2514]

Polywell fusion is sort of the next step after a farnsworth style fusor (multipactor).

[@TCBYEAHCUZ]

Nasa just published Lattice Confined fusion and it works!

[@OverlandOne]

Hey, no spoilers, ha ha.

[@ghostbuddy3106]

video starts... me: LOOK AT THOSE CAPS BRO!

[@jasblick9984]

Great video. I've worked in biomedical and induction industries for years and have followed graphene for some time. It is great that we are making big strides toward making it affordable to produce. Than you.

[@bulltrader-papriceaction3814]

Man... I just want to congratulate your chanel. You got the perfect stuffs here. From Brasil, Para, Belém. 😘

[@md.uzairahmed7774]

A suction gun on a smaller scale than the last one. Small in the sense of being easily held by hand. More or less the size of a medical shot cyringe

[@WorldGenesis]

Still waiting on the moment when he releases a video: "So, I built a Time Machine from just a paper cup and a string"

[@SharpnessSword]

😂😂😂

[@user-jp7tw3sd3x]

Jokes on you, that was the first video he uploaded. :P

[@jacobopstad5483]

I always find your videos informative and interesting! Great job!

[@user-vc6pi9hd8g]

I really appreciate all of your videos. Keep up the great science!

[@inspireonex]

"most people have a general idea of what graphene is" Oh, really? I doubt that.

[@rionmotley2514]

"most people [who watch this channel] have a general idea of what graphene is" There. Fixed it in post.

[@inspireonex]

@@rionmotley2514 mad lad

[@gyro5d]

Nanotubes.

[@ballpoint8216]

I had a similar project with high power cap banks before and the hardest part was controlling the power of the bank; any switch would basically die under the load. My solution was to use a spark gap switch where a spark would ionize the air, making it conductive and allow the cap bank to discharge

[@Nighthawkinlight]

That's a clever solution!

[@ballpoint8216]

@@Nighthawkinlight Yeah, thanks! I love watching your videos, if you need someone to make CAD files or 3D print stuff, hit me up! You can see some of my works on my channel.

[@PeterMilanovski]

@@ballpoint8216 what do you mean by making the air conductive? Air is already conductive! You only think that it's an insulator but it isn't! The only reason why it is believed that air is an insulator is because current doesn't flow at low voltage! But all of a sudden it very conductive at much higher voltage! The reason why current doesn't flow at low voltage is because of the difference in voltage potential! The air itself carries a charge of its own, it's like connecting to fully charged Batteries together, no current flows unless one has less charge than the other! It's the absorbed charge of the air molecules that prevent them from clumping together and forming a liquid. There's 500kv up there in the sky just waiting for you to tap into it if you can get a wire up there, lower voltage can be found at lower altitudes.. just don't try it when it's raining, you might end up with a lot more than 500kv..

[@SomethingWiley]

That's good food for thought! Happy to hear that you have safety in mind.

[@SidorenkoAaron]

Exciting to see what comes!

[@GMCLabs]

Photonic induction could do this to the extreme!

[@cipherfxmp]

Haha miss that guy

[@PyroTronix]

To bad he left it and went to India...

[@lenorelestrange]

Pretty sure he committed simpuku.

[@dontnubblemebro]

Before any of the bullshit rumours start, Photon is alive and well!

[@Steve_Just_Steve]

Ohh, I popped it!

[@3amali1]

Just google (carbon coater work principle) and you will find something 90% similar to this. The only addition in this paper is they used more capacitors so the current was ultra high and the carbon exploded very much to make flakes and loads of other things that very likely not graphene because it is simply chaotic process! What made the buzz here is the name of the professor behind it not the novelty of the actual work. Sorry!

[@milsgarage]

Awesome. Great experiment and explanation. Thank you for sharing. 🤘 Subbed. 👍

[@sumeshghatane81]

Hey Ben, I enjoy seeing you making great stuffs and love the way you explain them so neatly. I wonder can you make some supercapacitors out of those graphene that you just created.

[@izzieb]

I'd flash graphene, but last time I flashed something I ended up with a restraining order.

[@H3xx99]

Those capacitors are scary looking.

[@josephpecoul6532]

That is new to me and very exciting to say the least.

[@explosevgamr5349]

i look forward to the video on the cap bank! i love all the science that you do, ever since ive started watching when you made your video on the wood gas generator.

[@TheGamer.4310]

I have an idea from a video i saw from cody's lab you can try to melt metal with magnetic fields

[@joshbryant1133]

Flash graphene + Tesla tabless batteries= Way better and way cheaper EV'S. We can now turn most of our waste in landfills into batteries. This is a big brain moment

[@WestOfEarth]

This is what KZbin and the internet were made for! This channel is superb.

[@OfficialyMax]

Would love you to make another video upon this, testing it out with the big capacitor bank and even making concrete to see what results you can get

[@richardmccombs617]

For the negative Nancy’s out there aluminum was thought to be to expensive to process. It will be fast and cheaper than they think now. I’m a fan of the micro 3d printer (still in development) . Solar panels, automotive, everything light and efficient. Just saying.

[@edelweisstomner9009]

and to all the Positive Paula's with their heads in the graphene clouds, I wonder what they will call the graphene related illnesses that will eventually be prevalent when it's widely adopted and is an inescapable environmental hazard.

[@mr.hostility8970]

@@edelweisstomner9009 Wow...people are making up imaginary illnesses and environmental problems before we can even reliably make the stuff. Do you work in the oil industry?

[@-NGC-6302-]

“Flash graphene” *sees capacitor bank* ooh this is gonna be fun

[@ihtsarl9115]

hats up to you for sharing this valuabe scientific information. I have lots of super capacitors collecting dust and I will try this process.

[@Buzzhumma]

Awesome. Its time to finish my capacitor project and get flashing!

[@niaimack]

I hope this is true and we can start to make it with human and food waste, this would really help lower CO2 in the atmosphere.

[@Barskor1]

We can make some good methane and fertilizer out of that food waste but the graphene would be really good too.

[@niaimack]

Methane and organic fertilizer would both contribute to CO2, we need a way to store the excess carbon that used to be stored underground in the form of coal and natural gas.

[@Barskor1]

@@niaimack Have you ever wondered why the Jurassic period was so full of life? Don't be afraid of carbon.

[@gtfkt]

So you basically want humanity to die of hunger? Because that's what lowering atmospheric CO² will do, that and warming the planet.

[@websterri]

@@Barskor1 Exactly! People are so clueless and brainwashed. This stupid CO2 propaganda is so toxic.

[@user-el8ey6rp2n]

From that perspective your ears look like elf ears.... Great video though...

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

That's what you took from this video?? 🤣

[@user-el8ey6rp2n]

@@xxkissmeketutxx well actually no... But that is what I observed first 😂😂

[@user-el8ey6rp2n]

@Celtic Phoenix well I have to say that I didn't know that. Actually me and my brother we have the same type of ears (the pointy one) , and also we are gingers, but we are Greeks. I think I will start searching for my roots now haha.

[@TreDogOfficial]

This channel is gold!

[@hydrostatics]

Your channel is one of the best.thanks

[@cberge8]

If anyone can pull this off in a safe efficient means, it would be Ben at Applied Science. Hope he sees this.

[@eliosaile1689]

I love your content. It is beyond fascinating! 👍🏻

[@sassageflair257]

Thanks for keeping us up on the news, I remember being in middle school when we first talked about how graphene was going to change the world.

[@joejoel8962]

Thank you for sharing this information.

[@bobtail1200]

Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge , certainly your labor to but these vids up.

[@adimeshort]

Great video thanks- looking forward to more on your graphene journey

[@FBPrepping]

This is the sort of videos that are REALLY the reason I paid my Internet. Mind you, since an engineering viewpoint, you could build a DIY setup at home and charge your capacitor rack with solar or wind. Using your favorite carbon source and flashing it, then shipping it by the crate to some refining facility for post-processing into graphene, once the primary process is already tuned up. If this production scheme doesn't get the costs lower, then I don't know what would do it. Thanks for this, buddy. Fabulous!

[@CancerArpegius]

OMG YOU ARE BACK i remember watching your video when i was 12 and its been 5 years. Awesome dude

[@hoofheartedicemelted296]

I am going to keep a close eye on this channel. I think you are going to solve the mass production of this and revolutionise the battery/energy storage industry for the better. Many thanks Ben.👍

[@Renahin]

Great video! This is truly an incredible discovery, and this is the first demonstration ive seen of it. If you were to remove the other impurities, and if they could be refined/reused, i wonder just how much more we can find here!

[@hankusage8105]

YOU ARE THE BEST SO IS RICE LABS!

[@Rodzillaone]

You are the smartest guy I know! good job!

[@conductiveinkalternative918]

Thanks for the info. I have used the electrical method to make graphene.

[@Leonardokite]

Wow, that is potentially world changing technology there. Thanks for the info. You always seem to come up with the most interesting things. 😎 👍👍👍👍👍

[@mjk6618]

You're the Shiznit! 👍 Awesome dude... Just awesome! Love your Channel! 💕

[@SueDohman]

Man....I gotta say, I freakin love it that your fingers have smudged graphite (I’m assuming) on them as you’re making this video. For real working man!