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His team found that if they heated the fibers for 24 hours at a little over 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and then blasted the resulting material with more intense he
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
His team found that if they heated the fibers for 24 hours at a little over 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and then blasted the resulting material with more intense heat, it would exfoliate into carbon nanosheets.
Sounds like a similar process to the carbon-complex stuff that the ryden battery people are making from cotton. Nano materials might be easier to get in industrial quantities than I had previously thought, if you can strip them out of plants rather than having to build them up chemically. There presumably is an interesting crossover point here with genetic engineering, where you could alter a plant genome to encourage the formation of particular structures.