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Covert Cigarette Butts into Batteries
If you see a person carelessly throw a cigarette to the ground, what are you likely to think?
That depends.
If you hate people throwing things on the ground,you might think, "That person should not litter." If you are a smoker, you might think, "I would sure like a cigarette right now."
Most likely, though, you are not thinking, "You know,that unused cigarette butt could be used to make something, something amazing!
That is, unless you are a creative scientist. If you are, you may see potential -- a possibility --where others simply see trash. That is just what has happened in South Korea.
The spirit of invention can hit at the strangest times and in the most unusual places. In SouthKorea, it happened near a trash can.
Kim Gil-Pyo is with the Seoul National University. Mr. Kim says he saw peoplethrowing away cigarette butts. And that got him thinking. He began wondering if something useful could bemade from them.
The result? Mr. Kim and other researchers found a way to turn, or convert, cigarette butts into the materials required for high-performance batteries.
We often say, "One person's trash is another person's treasure." And in this example, that is unquestionably true.
That is, unless you are a creative scientist. If you are, you may see potential -- a possibility --where others simply see trash. That is just what has happened in South Korea.
The spirit of invention can hit at the strangest times and in the most unusual places. In SouthKorea, it happened near a trash can.
Kim Gil-Pyo is with the Seoul National University. Mr. Kim says he saw people throwing away cigarette butts. And that got him thinking. He began wondering if something useful could be made from them.
The result? Mr. Kim and other researchers found a way to turn, or convert, cigarette butts into the materials required for high-performance batteries.
We often say, "One person's trash is another person's treasure." And in this example, that is unquestionably true.
Super-capacitors are good at storing energy. They have high-power mass, or den sity. Theyrequire only a short time for re-charging. And they have a long lifecycle. Su per-capacitors areused in products such as laptop computers and cell phones. They are also used in industrial energy converters, like wind turbine machines.
Combining carbon and super-capacitors seems like a perfect marriage.
Kim Gil-Pyo tells the Reuters News Agency that cigarette butts could affect the e conomy is ahuge way. They could prove to be a low-cost source of carbon material. T hey are so cheap thatsmokers throw them to the ground. And you don't get much chea per than that.
Seoul National University professor Yi Jong-heop led this research. The findings were publishedlast month in the journal Nanotechnology.
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Key Words
unlikely adj. 不大可能source n.发源地；来源；原始材料current n.（水、气）流趋势density n.密集；密度；透明度
filter n.筛选；滤波器；过滤器stable adj.稳定的；安定的；可靠地；
cell n.细胞；电池；小组；小房间affect v影响；作用；感动
creative adj.创造性的；carelessly adv.粗心大意地；疏忽地Attractive Expressions
1.be likely to do:可能会做某事
Eg:She is likely to win the competation.
2.convert…. into….把…转化成…..
Eg:He found a way to convert cigarette into batteries.
3.One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.
废物利用或变废为宝
The Translation of Difficult Sentences
1.He says the pieces of the cellulose acetate,known as fibers,are changed through a
one-step burning process.
译：他说被人称为滤嘴的纤维素乙酸脂在一步到位的燃烧程序中发生变化。

ing carbon and super-capacitors seems like a perfect marriage.
译：复合碳和超级电容器似乎是最完美的结合
3.Carbon has a high surface area.
译：碳的表面积很大。

姓名：张娟
班级：英语13级3班
学号：201310011089。