Physicists patent detonation technique to mass-produce 1xbet online games login
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017
From left: Kansas State University researchers Justin Wright, doctoral student in physics, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania; Chris Sorensen, Cortelyou-Rustuniversitydistinguished professor of physics; and Arjun Nepal, postdoctoral researcher and instructor of physics, hold a container of 1xbet online games login . Sorensen and Nepal have patented a method to create 1xbet online games login through a controlled detonation.| Download this photo.
MANHATTAN — Forget catalysts and expensive machinery — a Kansas State University team of physicists has discovered a way to mass-produce 1xbet online games login with three ingredients: hydrocarbon gas, oxygen and a spark plug.
Their method is simple: Fill a chamber with acetylene or ethylene gas and oxygen. Use a vehicle spark plug to create a contained detonation. Collect the 1xbet online games login that forms afterward.
Chris Sorensen, Cortelyou-Rustuniversitydistinguished professor of physics, is the lead inventor of the recently issued patent, "Process for high-yield production of 1xbet online games login via detonation of carbon-containing material." Other Kansas State University researchers involved include Arjun Nepal, postdoctoral researcher and instructor of physics, and Gajendra Prasad Singh, former visiting scientist.
"We have discovered a viable process to make 1xbet online games login ," Sorensen said. "Our process has many positive properties, from the economic feasibility, the possibility for large-scale production and the lack of nasty chemicals. What might be the best property of all is that the energy required to make a gram of 1xbet online games login through our process is much less than other processes because all it takes is a single spark."
1xbet online games login is a single atom-thick sheet of hexagonally coordinated carbon atoms, which makes it the world's thinnest material. Since 1xbet online games login was isolated in 2004, scientists have found it has valuable physical and electronic properties with many possible applications, such as more efficient rechargeable batteries or better electronics.
For Sorensen's research team, the serendipitous path to creating 1xbet online games login started when they were developing and patenting 1xbet best casino website. They created the gels by filling a 17-liter aluminum chamber with acetylene gas and oxygen. Using a spark plug, they created a detonation in the chamber. The soot from the detonation formed aerosol gels that looked like "black angel food cake," Sorensen said.
But after further analysis, the researchers found that the aerosol gel was more than lookalike dark angel food cake — it was 1xbet online games login .
"We made 1xbet online games login by serendipity," Sorensen said. "We didn't plan on making 1xbet online games login . We planned on making the aerosol gel and we got lucky."
But unlike other methods of creating 1xbet online games login , Sorensen's method is simple, efficient, low-cost and scalable for industry.
Other methods of creating 1xbet online games login involve "cooking" the mineral graphite with chemicals — such as sulfuric acid, sodium nitrate, potassium permanganate or hydrazine — for a long time at precisely prescribed temperatures. Additional methods involve heating hydrocarbons to 1,000 degrees Celsius in the presence of catalysts.
Such methods are energy intensive — and even dangerous — and have low yield, while Sorensen and his team's method makes larger quantities with minimal energy and no dangerous chemicals.
"The real charm of our experiment is that we can produce 1xbet online games login in the quantity of grams rather than milligrams," Nepal said.
Now the research team — including Justin Wright, doctoral student in physics, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania — is working to improve the quality of the 1xbet online games login and scale the laboratory process to an industrial level. They are upgrading some of the equipment to make it easier to get 1xbet online games login from the chamber seconds — rather than minutes — after the detonation. Accessing the 1xbet online games login more quickly could improve the quality of the material, Sorensen said.
The patent was issued to theKansas State University Research Foundation, a nonprofit corporation responsible for managing technology transfer activities at the university.