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Deep Fried High-Tech<\/h2>\n

Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil<\/a> into the wonder material graphene \u2013 a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the\u00a0much-touted nanomaterial.<\/p>\n

Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties \u2013 it\u2019s 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be\u00a0turned into a superconductor\u00a0that carries electricity with zero resistance.<\/p>\n

That means the material has the potential to make better electronics, more effective solar cells, and could even be used in medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last year, a study suggested that graphene could help mobile phone batteries last\u00a025 percent longer, and the material has the potential to\u00a0filter fuel out of thin air.<\/p>\n

But these applications have been limited by the fact that graphene usually has to be made in a vacuum at intense heat using purified ingredients, which makes it expensive to produce.<\/p>\n

Until we can find a cost-effective way to mass produce the over-achieving material, it\u2019s pretty much limited to labs.<\/p>\n

But scientists in Australia have now managed to create graphene in normal air conditions, using cheap soybean cooking oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ambient-air process for graphene fabrication is fast, simple, safe, potentially scalable, and integration-friendly,\u201d\u00a0said one of the researchers, Zhao Jun Han\u00a0from Australia\u2019s CSIRO.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur unique technology is expected to reduce the cost of graphene production and improve the uptake in new applications.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team has called the new technique \u2018GraphAir\u2019 technology, and it involves heating\u00a0soybean oil<\/a> in a tube furnace for about 30 minutes, causing it to decompose into carbon building blocks.<\/p>\n

This carbon is then rapidly cooled on a foil made of nickel, where it diffuses into a thin rectangle of graphene that\u2019s just 1 nanometre thick (about 80,000 times thinner than a human hair).<\/p>\n

Not only is this technique cheaper and easier than other methods, it\u2019s also a lot quicker \u2013 to create graphene in a vacuum takes several hours.<\/p>\n

\"CSIRO\"<\/figure>\n

More Cheap Options<\/h2>\n

Zhao\u00a0told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)\u00a0that the technique could reduce the cost of making graphene 10-fold.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but it offers a more sustainable option for recycling waste cooking oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can now recycle waste oils that would have otherwise been discarded and transform them into something useful,\u201d\u00a0said one of the team, Dong Han Seo.<\/p>\n

The question now is whether this new technique can be scaled up \u2013 finding a cheaper way to make graphene is awesome, but the graphene film\u00a0produced so far\u00a0was only 5 cm (1.9 inches) by 2 cm (0.8 inches) in size.<\/p>\n

The team says that the largest film they can make using the technique right now is around the size of a\u00a0credit card.<\/p>\n

To really make graphene fit for commercial use, researchers will need to produce films that are a whole lot larger than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe potential\u2019s enormous,\u201d David Officer, a graphene expert from the University of Wollongong in Australia, who wasn\u2019t involved in the study,\u00a0told the ABC.<\/p>\n

\u201c[But] the question will be whether you can economically scale a method like this, where they\u2019ve sealed it inside a furnace tube, to create and handle metre-sized films.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team is now looking for commercial partners to pursue this goal.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re not the only researchers working on it \u2013 last week, a team from\u00a0Kansas State University patented a simple technique\u00a0that creates graphene using only hydrocarbon gas, oxygen, and a spark plug. No vacuum required.<\/p>\n

Time will tell if they can use it to effectively make large films of graphene in one go, but it\u2019s nice to know that researchers around the world are working on finding a way to take this incredible material out of the lab and into our lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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