Soaking up carbon dioxide and turning it into valuable products
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 15:20
in Physics & Chemistry
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.