Recycling graphene

[RedString]

I'm having some trouble finding any articles on the subject. Perhaps I'm just having a brain fart, but has anyone heard anything about the recycling potential for graphene? I was just wondering since it's probably going to be everywhere in the coming decades. Hopefully it will be a better replacement for plastics in the aspect of recycling as well.


"It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap [cling film]."
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9491789.stm

Jesus Christ.

 

[Cogman]

They haven't PRODUCED graphene the thickness of saran wrap. Lets worry about being able to mass produce the stuff before we start worrying whether we can recycle it. In fact, barring some very big breakthroughs, I doubt we will see it "everywhere", more than likely it will only replace integrated chips and not much more.

 

[destrekor]

They haven't PRODUCED graphene the thickness of saran wrap. Lets worry about being able to mass produce the stuff before we start worrying whether we can recycle it. In fact, barring some very big breakthroughs, I doubt we will see it "everywhere", more than likely it will only replace integrated chips and not much more.

I don't think we will see graphene cheap anytime soon, and I don't expect to see it mass-produced for use with many products during my lifetime. I think it might be cheaper toward my elderly years (so... 2050 or so), and it might be affordable enough to include in some middle- or higher-end products, especially anything needing extremely durability, and will likely find a lot of use in the military and medical fields.

 

[Cogman]

I don't think we will see graphene cheap anytime soon, and I don't expect to see it mass-produced for use with many products during my lifetime. I think it might be cheaper toward my elderly years (so... 2050 or so), and it might be affordable enough to include in some middle- or higher-end products, especially anything needing extremely durability, and will likely find a lot of use in the military and medical fields.

IDK, I could see it happening in the next 10->20 years. By about 20 years, silicon will probably have problems scaling (maybe, I wouldn't be the first to make this prediction and be wrong). At that point, I expect they will have invested a lot of money in alternative materials (graphene right now looking the most promising).

 

[mrjcleaver]

I don't think we will see graphene cheap anytime soon, and I don't expect to see it mass-produced for use with many products during my lifetime. I think it might be cheaper toward my elderly years (so... 2050 or so), and it might be affordable enough to include in some middle- or higher-end products, especially anything needing extremely durability, and will likely find a lot of use in the military and medical fields.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-simple-cheap-mass-produce-graphene-nanosheets.html

A description of the new research will be published the week of March 26 in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jong-Beom Baek, professor and director of the Interdisciplinary School of Green Energy/Advanced Materials & Devices, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea, led the effort.

"We have developed a low-cost, easier way to mass produce better graphene sheets than the current, widely-used method of acid oxidation, which requires the tedious application of toxic chemicals," said Liming Dai, professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve and a co-author of the paper.

 

[epidemis]

Graphene is made of carbon, there would be no point in recycling it. Just burn it.

 

[Matthiasa]

It is okay to let threads die.
necro+1

 

[FoBoT]

i bet the borg can p00p that stuff out all day long