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Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene

Posted by samzenpus on from the burning-up-and-down dept.

biodata (1981610) writes "BBC News is reporting findings published in the journal ACS Nano by Dr David Mitlin from Clarkson University. Dr. Mitlin's team took waste hemp stems and recycled the material into supercapacitors with performance as good, or better, than those built from graphene, at a fraction of the raw materials cost. "We're making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price - and we're doing it with waste. The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all - so there's no overlap with any recreational activities," Mitlin says.

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  1. No overlap with recreational activities? by kruach+aum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about basket weavers, you insensitive clod!

  2. Re:Legal... sort of by GrahamCox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which is nuts, actually. Hemp is a brilliant raw material with hundreds of practical uses which *should*, if people had any sense of balance, far outweigh the small issue of the cannabinoids. It could probably even be selectively bred to eliminate that aspect, but no, concern about a few potheads sends legislators into a tailspin. This is why we can't have nice things.