Machine learning fine-tunes graphene synthesis

Rice University chemists are employing machine learning to fine-tune its flash Joule heating process to make graphene. A flash signifies the creation of graphene from waste. Rice University scientists are using machine learning techniques to streamline the process of synthesizing graphene from waste through flash Joule heating. This flash Joule process has expanded beyond making graphene from various carbon sources, to extracting other materials, like metals, from urban waste. The technique is the same for all of the above: blasting a jolt of high energy through the source material to eliminate all but the desired product.