A chemist named Vilas Ganpat Pol from Illinois has come out with a technique of converting low or high density polyethylene into multiwalled carbon nanotubes.

These Nanotubes are used to manufacture lithium-ion batteries.

The process involved is to cook the polythene around 700degree C by using cobalt acetate as a catalyst for 2 hours then the cooked mixture is cooled slowly.

Recycling in this ‘up cycling’ method is the cheapest method.

The lithium-ion batteries got from this nanotubes work nicely when compared to the commercial nanotubes.