How to turn carbon dioxide into plastic

摘要

A Europe-wide project to investigate methods to convert carbon dioxide into plastics has been launched at this year's K Fair in Duesseldorf. Project EnCO2re currently involves a dozen research partners, including Imperial College London and Oxford University, in seven countries. The recent launch marks the point at which it is ready to work with industrial partners to scale up processes that are currently only in laboratories. There are three main routes for CO_2-to-chemical conversion, and the EnCO2re programme has active projects in two of them - catalysis and electrochemistry - and it plans to add projects in a third route, biological conversion, during 2017.