How an Accidental Discovery in a Texas Lab Could Reshape Battery Manufacturing | OilPrice.com Haley Zaremba Haley Zaremba is an energy journalist and researcher with more than a decade of professional experience covering global energy systems, land and natural resources, and… More Info Premium Content By Haley Zaremba – Jul 08, 2026, 4:00 PM CDT Texas A&M researchers accidentally found a plasma-based process that turns methane into high-purity graphene oxide, a key battery material, while producing green hydrogen as a byproduct. The process could undercut the costly, chemically intensive methods currently used to make graphene oxide, an ultrathin carbon material…