Scalable production of high-conductivity graphene by utilizing the exothermic energy of amino acids to drive the graphitization process

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-amino-acids-fuels-graphene.html

"reduced graphene oxide method has low conductivity due to structural defects, overcome furnace combusting graphene oxide with amino acids (cost effective) that release intense heat restoring sp2 carbon crystals (long graphene crystallites, C-rGO), 50X more conductive than standard rGO... printed thin films/ electronics: chipless RFID on PET substrate for microwave sensing, battery additives, thermal management, Joule heating"

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