Soaking Up Carbon Dioxide and Turning it into Valuable Products
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 16:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Berkeley Lab researchers have incorporated molecules of porphyrin CO2 catalysts into the sponge-like crystals of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to create a molecular system that not only absorbs carbon dioxide, but also selectively reduces it to CO, a primary building block for a wide range of chemical products.