Foam Fosters Carbon Dioxide Conversion

摘要

A CATALYST made from a foamy form of copper could convert excess CO2 into feedstock for use in biofuel production, and other useful hydrocarbons. Researchers at Brown University's Center for Capture and Conversion of CO2 ( www.brown.edu/cci-c4), Providence, R.I., say the foamy copper has vastly different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving CO2. This could result in "the use of renewable energy to drive the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to chemical feedstock such as formic acid, CO, ethylene, etc., which is the focus of out research center," says Tayhas Pal more, professor of engineering at the school.