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    While setting up their new lab, Purdue University researchers ended

    up with piles of packing peanuts. Professor Vilas Pol suggested an

    environmentally friendly way to reuse the waste. <br>

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    The team converted their lab's extra packing peanuts into

    high-performance carbon electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion

    batteries.

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