Researchers at Purdue University have found a way to turn waste polyethylene terephthalate into a battery anode. “We use an ultrafast microwave irradiation process to turn PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, flakes into disodium terephthalate, and use that as battery anode material,” said Vilas Pol, a Purdue associate professor of chemical engineering who has worked with the ...

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