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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated an effective way to capture 99% of carbon dioxide from the ambient air feed to an hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) air using a novel electrochemical system powered by hydrogen. Source: University of Delaware.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. Qian Wang et al.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method to convert CO 2 directly into aviation fuel using a novel, inexpensive iron-based catalyst. H 2 ) on the catalytically active sites of Fe 3 O 4 , and subsequently by the FTS reactions (CO?+?H C n H m ?+?H H 2 O) on catalytically active sites on ?-Fe Makgae, O.A.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Image Credit: Gordon Humphries, University of Strathclyde. The approach provides real-time spatially resolved information for carbon dioxide emissions from a large-scale commercial engine, said research team leader Michael Lengden from the University of Strathclyde in the UK. Image Credit: Abhishek Upadhyay, University of Strathclyde.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Researchers at the University of Michigan, McGill University and McMaster University have developed a binary copper?iron —Zetian Mi, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who co-led the work with Jun Song, professor of materials engineering at McGill University.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. This work was supported by grants from the Packard Foundation and the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. Chengshuang Zhou, Arun S.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The research, accepted for publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology raises the possibility of converting atmospheric CO 2 to commodity chemicals. 00299-21.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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MAY 20, 2020

The analysis, published in Nature Climate Change , was conducted by researchers from the University of East Anglia, Stanford University, the CICERO Center for International Climate Research and CSIRO as part of the Global Carbon Project. Percentage change in global daily fossil CO 2 emissions, Jan-May 2020. Le Quéré, C., Jackson, R.B.,

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APRIL 20, 2019

Buchal, Christoph, Hans-Dieter Karl and Hans-Werner Sinn (2019) “ Kohlemotoren, Windmotoren und Dieselmotoren: Was zeigt die CO2-Bilanz? ”, ifo Schnelldienst 72 (08) (in German). This being the case, the German federal government should treat all technologies equally and promote hydrogen and methane solutions as well. —Prof.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

A new material that can selectively capture CO 2 molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at Kyoto University, along with colleagues at the University of Tokyo and Jiangsu Normal University in China. —Susumu Kitagawa, materials chemist at Kyoto University.

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MARCH 26, 2021

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted its Triennial Strategic Research Plan. It acts as a resource for those interested in CARB’s research priorities for the 2021-2024 fiscal years, informing sister agencies, universities and communities of the agency’s priorities.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make n -butanol. To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first attempt for biofuel production using a solar panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis platform, where carbon dioxide is directly converted to liquid fuel.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The group is joined by a non-financial investor UniTartu Ventures, an investment company of the University of Tartu, which transfers the IP rights for equity. This has a major negative impact on the environment as they are either mined or synthesized from energy-dense fossil resources.

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MAY 1, 2013

Researchers at the University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI) discovered a major new lithium resource near Rock Springs during a geological carbon dioxide storage site characterization project sponsored by the US Department of Energy. Presently, the US imports more than 80% of the lithium used domestically.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. Other cities Gurney has mapped to this degree are Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Baltimore. Gurney hopes that will inspire people to become more engaged in policy development. Gurney, K.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Researchers at Nankai University in China report their latest advance in developing a rechargeable Li-CO 2 battery with the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with high electrical conductivity and porous three-dimensional networks as air cathodes for the rechargeable metal-CO 2 batteries. Ketjen Black (Liu et al. 1032 mAh g -1. Graphene (Z.

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MAY 3, 2020

A team from the University of Tennessee and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has the fuel savings due to fuel economy improvements over the past 43 years amount to approximately two trillion gallons of gasoline. Again, because of the uncertainties in the attribution they conducted a sensitivity analysis. Greene, Charles B.

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JULY 19, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ). Johnson et al. Click to enlarge. 2017.07.003. 2017.07.003.

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MARCH 28, 2021

A new boron-copper catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into chemicals or fuels has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen. They optimized already available copper catalysts to improve their selectivity and long-term stability. —Wolfgang Schuhmann. 202016898.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

She and her colleagues, including scientists from the University of Maryland in College Park and DENSsolutions, in Delft, the Netherlands, reported their findings in Nature Materials. —Renu Sharma. Canhui Wang, Wei-Chang D.

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MAY 4, 2012

In cooperation with project partners from BASF, Munich Technical University, and the University of Hamburg, scientists at Siemens’ global research unit Corporate Technology developed an alternative for the standard polystyrene-based acrylonitrite-butadiene-styrene (ABS) polymer, which is frequently used for consumer products.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are developing a new process for photoelectrosynthesis of methanol—the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using sunlight and hybrid CuO–Cu 2 O semiconductor nanorod arrays. As long as we are using fossil fuels, we’ll have the question of what to do with the carbon dioxide.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and George Washington University in the US report in a new paper in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research that a range of important carbon nanomaterials can be produced at high yield by molten carbonate electrolysis. —Liu et al. 2019.11.019.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Researchers from Stanford University and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have engineered and demonstrated a solid-oxide electrochemical cell (SOC) with a porous ceria electrode that achieves stable and selective CO 2 electrolysis beyond the thermodynamic carbon deposition threshold. Skafte, Zixuan Guan, Michael L.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

If ship hulls were coated with special bo-inspired high-tech air trapping materials, up to 1% of global CO 2 emissions could be avoided according to a new study by researchers from the University of Bonn together with colleagues from St. —co-author Dr. Matthias Mail, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants at the University of Bonn.

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JUNE 13, 2022

A team at Chalmers University in Sweden has analyzed the results of the integration of a chemical looping gasification (CLG) process with a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) process and found that this biomass-to-liquids process can produce FT crude with net-negative CO 2 emissions. 31%) and waxes (?10%). 2c00819.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

A team from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, and Georgia Tech has developed a a wave-energy-driven electrochemical CO 2 reduction system that converts ocean wave energy to chemical energy in the form of formic acid, a liquid fuel. —Leung et al.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

A team led by researchers form Temple University has developed earth-abundant electrocatalysts—Mo 2 C and Ti 3 C 2 MXenes—for the electroreduction of CO 2 to CO. Relevant to the current study, a prior density functional theory (DFT) computational study suggested that M 3 C 2 MXenes are promising materials for the CO 2 RR.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Now a team led by researchers at Rice University has achieved continuous electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 to pure liquid fuel solutions in cells that utilize solid electrolytes, in which electrochemically generated cations (such as H + ) and anions (such as HCOO ? Xia is a J. Evans Attwell-Welch Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice.

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Researchers from the National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy in Beijing and Eindhoven University of Technology have developed iron-based catalysts that substantially reduce operating costs and open the door to capturing the large amounts of CO 2 that are generated by CTL. The feedstock will not be coal or gas, but waste and biomass.

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APRIL 11, 2017

Working with a team for the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, and Hokkaido University in Sapporo (Japan), as well as Tianjin University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China), Ye is now pursuing a strategy that uses both the light and thermal energy provided by sunlight.

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MAY 4, 2012

The projects, in brief: Black Warrior Basin: A strategic partnership of the University of Alabama, the Geological Survey of Alabama, Rice University, Schlumberger Carbon Services and Alabama Power is studying an area with multiple promising CO 2 storage reservoirs and seals.

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MARCH 2, 2018

One reason is that it performs HER very well, and brings down the CO2 reduction selectivity dramatically. —Haotian Wang, a Rowland Fellow at Harvard University and the corresponding author. This study was supported in part by the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. —Haotian Wang.

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MAY 3, 2022

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University, SINTEF in Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, has developed a polymer membrane technology that removes carbon dioxide from mixed gases with both high permeability and high selectivity. A paper on their work is published in the journal Science.

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JULY 12, 2019

Researchers at George Washington University led by Prof. Resources. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) report a process for the high-yield, low-energy synthesis of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) by electrolysis of CO 2 in molten carbonate. A paper on their work is published in the journal Advanced Sustainable Systems. —Prof. 201900056.

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JULY 20, 2019

Haldor Topsøe is leading the eSMR Methanol project, which includes the partners Aarhus University, Sintex A/S, Blue World Technology ApS, Technical University of Denmark, Energinet A/S, Aalborg University, and PlanEnergi. The project is supported by the EUDP Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program.

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