Feb
22
Engineers Create New Way to Recycle CO2 Into New Products
February 22, 2024 | 1 Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… Engineers at the University of Cincinnati created a more efficient way of converting carbon dioxide into valuable products while simultaneously addressing climate change. The study paper has been published in the journal Nature Chemical Engineering. In his chemical engineering lab in UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Science, Associate Professor Jingjie Wu and his […]
Feb
23
Breakthrough Copper Catalyst Converts CO2 Into Liquid Fuels
February 23, 2023 | Leave a Comment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers have made real-time movies of copper nanoparticles as they evolve to convert carbon dioxide and water into renewable fuels and chemicals. Their new insights could help advance the next generation of solar fuels. The paper about the research has been published in the journal Nature. Since the 1970s, scientists have […]
Oct
20
New Catalyst Makes Ethylene From CO2
October 20, 2020 | Leave a Comment
Open Image…Save ImageOpen Image (using #TmpD/ia)… UCLA scientists have developed nanoscale copper wires with specially shaped surfaces to catalyze a chemical reaction that reduces CO2 gas emissions recycling the CO2 while generating ethylene – a valuable chemical simultaneously. The Caltech and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering team demonstrated the new catalyst to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene, which […]
Aug
26
New Catalyst Turns CO2 Into Fuel and Chemicals
August 26, 2020 | Leave a Comment
A team of Brown University researchers has found a way to fine-tune a copper catalyst to produce complex hydrocarbons – known as C2-plus products – from CO2 with remarkable efficiency. By efficiently converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, the new catalyst could potentially aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide into useful carbon-based […]
Dec
27
Two Ways Found To Convert CO2 Into Fuel
December 27, 2018 | 2 Comments
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered that recycling carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels can be economical and efficient using a new a single copper catalyst. And Linköping University researchers have now taken an important step towards a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the […]