In ontwikkeling: ethanol maken uit CO2 + water – ‘Researchers discover new electrocatalyst for turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel’
6 August 2020
12:00
A research team, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with Northern Illinois University, has discovered a new electrocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into ethanol with very high energy efficiency, high selectivity for the desired final product and low cost. Ethanol is a particularly desirable commodity because it is an ingredient in nearly all U.S. gasoline and is widely used as an intermediate product in the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
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The team’s research benefited from two DOE Office of Science User Facilities at Argonne—the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM)—as well as Argonne’s Laboratory Computing Resource Center (LCRC). “Thanks to the high photon flux of the X-ray beams at the APS, we have captured the structural changes of the catalyst during the electrochemical reaction,” said Tao Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Illinois University and an assistant scientist in Argonne’s X-ray Science division.
Gaat deze de zoveelste ethanol uit CO2 in ontwikkeling ‘het’ dan echt worden? Met “Thanks to the high photon flux of the X-ray beams at the APS, we have captured the structural changes of the catalyst during the electrochemical reaction,” klinkt het wel prettig toekomstig om tezijnertijd op terug te blikken.
