{"id":115337,"date":"2020-10-30T22:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/flash-graphene-rocks-strategy-for-plastic-waste"},"modified":"2020-10-30T22:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:27:51","slug":"flash-graphene-rocks-strategy-for-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/flash-graphene-rocks-strategy-for-plastic-waste","title":{"rendered":"Flash graphene rocks strategy for plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flash-graphene-rocks-strategy-for-plastic-waste2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plastic waste comes back in black as pristine graphene, thanks to ACDC.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Rice University scientists call the process they employed to make efficient use of waste <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plastic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plastic<\/a> that would otherwise add to the planet\u2019s environmental woes. In this instance, the lab of Rice chemist James Tour modified its method to make flash graphene to enhance it for recycling plastic into graphene.<\/p>\n<p>The lab\u2019s study appears in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic waste comes back in black as pristine graphene, thanks to ACDC. That\u2019s what Rice University scientists call the process they employed to make efficient use of waste plastic that would otherwise add to the planet\u2019s environmental woes. In this instance, the lab of Rice chemist James Tour modified its method to make flash graphene [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}