{"id":243146,"date":"2026-08-25T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-wonder-material-graphene-can-be-made-using-a-kitchen-blender-a-mobile-phone-and-a-newspaper"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:27:39","slug":"the-wonder-material-graphene-can-be-made-using-a-kitchen-blender-a-mobile-phone-and-a-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/the-wonder-material-graphene-can-be-made-using-a-kitchen-blender-a-mobile-phone-and-a-newspaper","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018wonder material\u2019 graphene can be made using a kitchen blender, a mobile phone and a newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-wonder-material-graphene-can-be-made-using-a-kitchen-blender-a-mobile-phone-and-a-newspaper.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is something slightly ridiculous about using a kitchen blender to make graphene. This is, after all, the \u201cwonder material\u201d associated with futuristic technologies. You might reasonably expect its production to involve equally futuristic equipment. Often, it does.<\/p>\n<p>Producing graphene in liquid form can rely on purified graphite (better known to many as the \u201clead\u201d in pencils), specialized solvents or additives, ultrapure water and carefully controlled processing. Our latest research, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/asrmcd\/article\/doi\/10.1021\/acssusresmgt.6c00463\/5276243\/Transient-Cellulose-Stabilization-Enables-Tap\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>ACS Sustainable Resource Management<\/i>, asked what happens if you try to make it using things you\u2019d find in your household.<\/p>\n<p>Could you start with graphite found in electronic waste, use old newspaper to help hold it in a liquid, mix everything in ordinary tap water and still end up with useful graphene?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something slightly ridiculous about using a kitchen blender to make graphene. This is, after all, the \u201cwonder material\u201d associated with futuristic technologies. You might reasonably expect its production to involve equally futuristic equipment. Often, it does. Producing graphene in liquid form can rely on purified graphite (better known to many as the \u201clead\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243146","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}