Young inventors use food waste to create sustainable water filter

 Using the rinds of durians and waste from sugarcane, Caleb Liow Jia Le (left in photo), Johnny Xiao Hong Yu (right) and Ho Shane found a safer way to create reduced graphene oxide. Learn how they did it.

The three 16-year-old students are in their fourth year of high school in Singapore, and won with their project: “A novel, eco-friendly synthesis of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) from durian rind and sugarcane bagasse for water filters”.

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