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Rice University: Army Backs Bid to 'Flash' Waste Into Useful Materials
October 01, 2021
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 1 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release:

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Grant to Rice enables expansion of discovery that produced graphene from food, plastic

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Where others see a pile of trash, Rice University chemist James Tour sees a figurative gold mine.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agrees, and it will work with Tour and his collaborators through a $5.2 million, four-year grant to reclaim valuable ma . . .

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