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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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A team of international researchers led by Professor Cafer T. Yavuz of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Prof. Bo Liu from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and Prof.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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In contrast, the LSP method not only saves energy but uses aluminum, a cheap and abundant metal. Previous methods of removing carbon dioxide have had limited success because the techniques have required high temperature or pressure, employed costly precious metals, or had poor efficiency.

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Hyundai $20,000 EV, Blazer EV patrol car, solid-state CO2 benefits, VW’s Scout: Today’s Car News

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Hyundai is working on a cheap electric small car. Volkswagen shifts its top U.S. executive over to Scout. Solid-state batteries could help give EVs a lighter carbon footprint. And GM confirms electric police vehicles. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

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One reason is that it performs HER very well, and brings down the CO2 reduction selectivity dramatically. To apply this technology to real applications in the future, we are currently aimed at producing this single atom catalyst in a cheap and large-scale way, while improving its performance and maintaining its efficiency.

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Stanford researchers develop copper-based catalyst that produces ethanol from CO at room temperature; potential for closed-loop CO2-to-fuel process

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We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. Prior to our study, there was a sense that no catalyst could efficiently reduce carbon monoxide to a liquid. We hope our results inspire other people to work on our system or develop a new catalyst that converts carbon monoxide to fuel.

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New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

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The hierarchical self-assembly of the system offers a promising bottom-up strategy to create a precisely controlled, high-performance artificial photocatalytic system based on cheap, Earth-abundant elements, like zinc and cobalt porphyrin complexes. 2023) “Artificial spherical chromatophore nanomicelles for selective CO2 reduction in water.”

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First snapshots of CO2 molecules trapped in MOFs shed new light on carbon capture

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It has high commercial potential because it’s very cheap and easy to synthesize. This allowed the scientists to make images in atomic detail while minimizing the electron beam exposure. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8. It came in particles just 100 billionths of a meter in diameter. —Stanford postdoc Kecheng Wang.

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