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Upgrading Mixed Textile Waste to Nano Onion-Like Fullerenes by the Two-Step Flash Joule Heating Qiang Yang (135832) Peixin Cui (5536049) Shuailei Pu (23514723) Yongguang Bu (9969182) Xiangdong Zhu (158130) Bing Deng (183611) Yujun Wang (1947196) Jintu Fan (805677) Hanchao Zhang (9081281) Biochemistry Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified Medicine Pharmacology Evolutionary Biology Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified Ecology Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Information Systems not elsewhere classified scaffolding effect ”</ involving physical confinement high quality (< hexagonal ring structure carbon atoms leading 280 ° c 2000 ° c nolfs within 5 automated fjh prototype g </ sub >< sub systematically investigated successfully extended solid wastes produce nolfs nolfs derived nolfs ). nano onion like fullerenes excellent performance evolution pathway etc .). different fibers cotton mixture core pentagonal chemical bonding 6 %) Real-world mixed textile waste streams seriously hinder recycling. Herein, we present a two-step flash Joule heating (FJH) strategy for directly upgrading mixed textile waste into ordered multilayer nano onion-like fullerenes (NOLFs). The interaction between different fibers, termed a “<i>scaffolding effect”</i> involving physical confinement and chemical bonding, was strengthened by the precarbonization (280 °C) treatment. Consequently, the polyester/cotton mixture can be upgraded to NOLFs within 5 s with high quality (<i>I</i>_2D/<i>I</i>_G = 1.47) and yield (41.6%) at 2000 °C, and this technology can be successfully extended to other textiles and solid wastes (polyamide, straws, etc.). The evolution pathway of carbon atoms leading to the formation of the core pentagonal/hexagonal ring structure in NOLFs was systematically investigated in this work. Moreover, an automated FJH prototype was developed to produce NOLFs with 86.4 g·day^–1 continuously, and these NOLFs derived an excellent performance as electrode and lubricant. 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 10.1021/acsnano.6c11507.s001 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Upgrading_Mixed_Textile_Waste_to_Nano_Onion-Like_Fullerenes_by_the_Two-Step_Flash_Joule_Heating/34038021 CC BY-NC 4.0