Random Crap from Zeno Izen

Researchers in China have now developed a technique that uses waste plastics as carbon source for synthesizing silicon carbide (SiC) nanomaterials. This may actually provide an effective method to help solve the environmental pollution of waste plastics.

By the way, in a previous Nanowerk Spotlight we have reported about another “plastic waste to nanomaterial” approach, also by a Chinese research group, that developed a nanocomposite material that not only has superabsorbent capabilities but also utilizes waste polystyrene foam – better known under its trade name styrofoam (“Novel nanocomposite material to combat white pollution”).