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Neutron imaging reveals optimization potential for CO₂ conversion

Highly precise investigation under realistic operating conditions

14-Mar-2025 - The environmentally harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, or CO₂ for short, can be converted into valuable chemical products such as carbon monoxide (CO) or ethanol by means of electrochemical reduction – electrolysis. These can be used as raw materials for industry or for the sustainable ...

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Cobalt-copper tandem successfully converts carbon dioxide to ethanol

Sustainability in the focus of chemical research

14-Oct-2024 - The continuing release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a major contributor to global warming and climate change with increased extreme weather events. Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now presented a method for effectively converting carbon dioxide into ...

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Breakthrough Study Unveils Key Steps for Turning CO2 into Valuable Chemicals

These findings can have significant implications for the chemical industry

16-Sep-2024 - A groundbreaking study by the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia has been published in the journal Nature Energy. The paper, entitled „Key intermediates and Cu active sites for CO2 electroreduction to ethylene and ...

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Innovative Research Unveils News Path to Ethanol Production from CO2

Discovery represents a significant step forward in understanding in the quest for sustainable energy solutions

12-Sep-2024 - In a cutting-edge study published in the journal „Energy & Environmental Science“, researchers from the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have introduced a novel method for converting the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into ethanol, a sustainable fuel. This ...

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Recycling carbon dioxide into household chemicals

New catalyst transforms carbon dioxide from industrial emissions into commonly used chemicals

23-May-2024 - A low-cost, tin-based catalyst can selectively convert carbon dioxide to three widely produced chemicals — ethanol, acetic acid and formic acid. Lurking within the emissions from many industrial operations is an untapped resource — carbon dioxide (CO2). A contributor of greenhouse gas and global ...

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Flying with a clear conscience? Million-dollar deal for sustainable aviation fuels

LanzaJet announces $30 million investment from Southwest Airlines to accelerate company's growth and advance U.S. sustainable aviation fuel production

05-Mar-2024 - LanzaJet, Inc. announced a $30 million investment by Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) in LanzaJet. As part of the agreement, LanzaJet and Southwest intend to work toward the development of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facility and collaborate to advance the operations of a corn ...

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Tandem single atom electrocatalyst realizes reduction of CO2 to ethanol

Promising strategy to mitigate carbon dioxide emission

20-Nov-2023 - The electrochemical CO2reduction reaction (CO2RR) into carbon-based fuels provides a promising strategy to mitigate CO2emission and promotes the utilization of renewable energy. The Cn(n≥2) liquid products are desirable because of their high energy densities and ease of storage. However, ...

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Microbes powered by electricity

How bacteria use electricity and carbon dioxide to produce useful chemicals

02-Jun-2023 - In microbial electrosynthesis, microorganisms use CO2 and electricity to produce alcohol, for example. How this process works biologically, however, has only been speculated about until now. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) have ...

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Driving on sunshine: clean, usable liquid fuels made from solar power

Artificial leaf can directly produce clean ethanol and propanol

24-May-2023 - Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as drop-in fuel. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert CO2, water and ...

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Next generation solar fuels: How a record-breaking copper catalyst converts CO₂ into liquid fuels

Researchers have made real-time movies of copper nanoparticles as they evolve to convert carbon dioxide and water into renewable fuels and chemicals

21-Feb-2023 - Since the 1970s, scientists have known that copper has a special ability to transform carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels. But for many years, scientists have struggled to understand how this common metal works as an electrocatalyst, a mechanism that uses energy from electrons to ...

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