LIT UPDATE - Making graphene from trash...and in a flash!!

In today's lit update, we discuss exciting research that has shown to make graphene in 0.01 seconds!! So fast!! The other amazing thing about this is the graphene can be made from pellets that come from garbage! Such as used water bottles and tires, to various other sources of food wastes. As long as the source has carbon, it can be made into graphene using this technique! Truly incredible science and engineering. We want to make graphene quickly and in large amounts so that company's can use it. Let's learn more, together! The lit work (first paper):  D. X. Luong et al., “Gram-scale bottom-up flash graphene synthesis,” Nature, vol. 577, no. 7792, pp. 647–651, 2020. Its follow up work (same research group):  W. A. Algozeeb et al., “Flash graphene from plastic waste,” ACS nano, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 15595–15604, 2020. P. A. Advincula, D. X. Luong, W. Chen, S. Raghuraman, R. Shahsavari, and J. M. Tour, “Flash Graphene from Rubber Waste,” Carbon, 2021. References:  A. Kumar, K. Sharma, and A. R. Dixit, “Carbon nanotube-and graphene-reinforced multiphase polymeric composites: review on their properties and applications,” Journal of Materials Science, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 2682–2724, 2020. E. Shamsaei, F. B. de Souza, X. Yao, E. Benhelal, A. Akbari, and W. Duan, “Graphene-based nanosheets for stronger and more durable concrete: A review,” Construction and Building Materials, vol. 183, pp. 642–660, 2018.  D. Dimov et al., “Ultrahigh performance nanoengineered graphene–concrete composites for multifunctional applications,” Advanced functional materials, vol. 28, no. 23, p. 1705183, 2018. H. Ritchie and M. Roser, “Plastic pollution,” Our World in Data, 2018. R. de A. Martins, “Joule’s 1840 manuscript on the production of heat by voltaic electricity,” Notes and Records, 2020. B., Jyothirmai, M. Haritha Kiranmai, and K. Vagdevi. "Graphene reinforces asphalt–Doubles durability of road." AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2269. No. 1. AIP Publishing LLC, 2020. Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay