One box of Girl Scout Cookies worth $15 billion: Lab shows troop how any carbon source can become valuable graphene
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists can make graphene out of just about anything with carbon -- even Girl Scout Cookies. Graduate students in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour proved it when they invited a troop of Houston Girl Scouts to their lab to show them how it's done.