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Materials Science Sep 5, 2023

Novel titanium dioxide catalyst shows promise for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction

The conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to useful resources such as carbon monoxide, formic acid, and methanol and their byproducts is considered a promising route to mitigating global warming ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 28, 2023

Examining photocatalytic carbon dioxide conversion and its application beyond Earth

Today, space missions mainly rely on the transportation of basic needs from the Earth, which is extremely challenging and logistically impossible when we aim to develop stations or habitats on extraterrestrial sites such ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 23, 2023

Ensuring a sustainable future: New iron compound enables applications that save significant carbon dioxide

Scientists from Paderborn University, working under Professor Matthias Bauer, have achieved a breakthrough in the field of sustainable chemistry: together with a team of researchers from the universities of Rostock, Mainz, ...

Nanomaterials Aug 17, 2023

Researchers develop a sustainable gel film to capture carbon dioxide with reduced energy cost

Global CO2 emissions for 2022 reached 36.1 gigatons, and this consumed 13–36% of the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C, which means our permissible emissions could be depleted within two years.

Materials Science Aug 11, 2023

Developing new catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction

As a crucial part of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technology, CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to carbon-based fuels and chemicals presents broad application prospects in renewable energy storage and CO2 ...

Environment Aug 11, 2023

Study suggests rise in global photosynthesis rate due to increase in carbon dioxide has slowed

A team of Earth scientists at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science's Grassland Research Institute, working with colleagues from several institutions in the U.S., has found evidence that the rise in photosynthesis rates ...

Biochemistry Jul 27, 2023

Imaging shows how solar-powered microbes turn carbon dioxide into bioplastic

When considering ways to sustainably generate environmentally friendly products, bacteria might not immediately spring to mind.

Analytical Chemistry Jul 24, 2023

Building efficient mass transfer pathways for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction reaction

Since the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is increasing because of human activities, the accelerated greenhouse effect and global warming have become common concerns. To mitigate such environmental problems, ...

Earth Sciences Jul 21, 2023

Fiber optic sensing tracks seismicity from injected carbon dioxide at Australian site

Researchers at a field site in Victoria, Australia are among the first to use fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for high-precision tracking of induced seismicity from a small carbon dioxide (CO2) injection, according ...

Earth Sciences Jul 20, 2023

Team forecasts a surge in extreme El Niño events despite carbon dioxide reductions: A call to refine climate policy

El Niño is a term derived from Spanish to describe a natural phenomenon marked by higher-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Eastern Pacific. The convective Extreme El Niño denotes events with daily rainfall ...

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