Australian researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonisation of heavy industries. The ...

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“You can put the carbon nanofibers into cement to strengthen the cement,” said Jingguang Chen, a professor of chemical engineering at Columbia with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab who led the ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have developed a way to convert carbon dioxide (CO 2), a potent greenhouse gas, into carbon ...

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate. Formate, in its liquid or solid form can be used to power a fuel cell and ...

Researchers found how carbon dioxide can be captured and converted through a single electrochemical process. A system based on these findings could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize ...

Jesús Velázquez, assistant professor of chemistry and Louise Berben, professor of chemistry are taking part in a new program to research converting carbon dioxide to fuels and chemicals. The project, ...

(Nanowerk News) The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to ...

Rice University's Pulickel Ajayan and team have discovered a method to convert carbon dioxide into methane using copper-based catalysts. The process uses electrolysis and catalysts created by placing ...

Revolutionary breakthroughs are transforming the process of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into clean fuels. Cutting-edge technology now enables this conversion to take place in mere minutes, ...

Photoreduction of CO2 into transportable fuel like formic acid (HCOOH) is a great way of dealing with CO2's rising levels in the atmosphere. To aid in this mission, a research team chose an easily ...

Tandem electrocatalytic-thermocatalytic conversion could help offset emissions of potent greenhouse gas by locking carbon away in a useful material UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of ...