The wonders ofgraphenenever seem to cease . Desalinization , pliant semiconductor , and now nuclear waste clean and jerk - up . It turns outgraphene - oxide is fantastic for clumping up around radioactive wastemaking it easy to get rid of the material .
https://gizmodo.com/graphene-just-won-two-guys-the-nobel-so-what-the-hell-5656256
Research done by scientists at Houston ’s Rice University and Lomonosov Moscow State University show that flakes of graphene - oxide are awesome at absorbing radioactive waste from water , mostly thanks to their gravid surface region . It ’s much near at it than the bentonite clays and activated carbon paper that ’s used now , and works well even in the presence of calcium and sodium , which commonly complicate matter .
The plunk up textile is still radioactive , but graphene - oxide is easy burned , which would allow the clumps to be removed from the body of water and then fundamentally melted down into a pure radioactive dross that can be more well dealt with . The thought is that this technique could be used not only to help clean up after disasters like Fukushima , but also help keep radiation discovered during fracking at bay . Someone go put another tally in graphene ’s “ win ” column . [ gizmag ]
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