Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies 129
An anonymous reader writes "Last year we learned that the miracle material graphene could be made from common table sugar, and now researchers at Rice University have taken the discovery one step further by literally baking it from a box of girl scout cookies. A group of graduate students led by chemist James Tour recently teamed up with Houston Girl Scout troop 25080 to perform the feat using a single box of Trefoil cookies — which could potentially yield $15 billion worth of graphene."
Re:Supply and demand (Score:4, Insightful)
... to perform the feat using a single box of Trefoil cookies — which could potentially yield $15 billion worth of graphene
It could potentially reduce the price of $15 billion worth of graphene to a single box of Terfoil cookies. Here, fixed that for you.
Re:Supply and demand (Score:5, Insightful)
I used to think you Americans and your obsession with girlscout cookies were weird in a sort of cutesy way.
Then a few years ago my dad brought some thin mints back from a business trip to the US, a colleague had evidently been selling them in the office.
Now I understand.
Girl Scouts don't bake anymore (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know how things are where you live, but here Girl Scouts don't bake cookies. They just buy mass produced packages in bulk and resell with markup. This adequately prepares them for functioning in our society that no longer produces anything, and, evidently, doesn't even want to.