Graphene, the New “Miracle Material,” Can be Made from Plain Sugar

Table sugar, that bane of nutritionists everywhere, may be on the verge of redeeming itself. A team of researchers at Rice University has found that ordinary table sugar can be manipulated to form sheets of graphene. Something of a new miracle material, graphene could be used to create a new generation of electronic devices that use far less energy and take up far less space, too. If the sugar-to-graphene process proves commercially viable, that would give sugar a critical role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving resources in our increasingly electronics-reliant world.

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