"Waste plastic is rarely recycled because it costs a lot of money to do all the washing, sorting and melting down of the plastics to turn it into a material that can be used by a factory," said Kevin Wyss, a Rice graduate student and lead author on a study published in Advanced Materials that describes how he and colleagues in the lab of chemist James Tour used their flash Joule heating technique to turn plastic into valuable carbon nanotubes and hybrid nanomaterials."We were able to make a hybrid carbon nanomaterial that outperformed both graphene and commercially available carbon nanotubes," Wyss said.
Also wondering if we acquired the rights to this also from a phys org piece in 2023
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