Category: Materials News

Methane, which produces more warming than other greenhouse gases, is the subject of newly announced US emission restrictions. Methane is hard to break down and keep out of the atmosphere. Researchers at Iowa State University have found a catalyst technology that appears to be meeting all the requirements. Those reactions exhibit about 7% methane conversion with 95% selectivity toward ethane/methylene conversion. The products can be turned into plastics and resins, like polyethylene. Source: https://www.materialstoday.com/nanomaterials/news/novel-2d-catalyst-ties-that-bind-in-methane/

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For the first time, a team of Harvard University researchers led by Amir Yacoby has observed unusual fractional states in graphene at low earth’s magnetic field. The study was carried out in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pablo Jarillo-Herrero. The researchers were interested in a specific exotic quantum state known as fractional Chern insulators. These are topological insulators, meaning they conduct electricity on their surface or edge, but not in the middle. Like fundamental particles, quasiparticles have well defined properties like mass and charge. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211215113319.htm

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A new report distributed in the KeAi diary Green Energy and Environment reports an original technique to catch Carbon Dioxide utilizing daylight as the energy source and altered sawdust as the material that assimilates Carbon Dioxide. The experiment was performed by an exploration group from the Renmin University of China. Other than catching Carbon Dioxide, their methodology forestalls the utilization of fossil fuels, which would create extra Carbon Dioxide. Significantly, the new assimilation technique is reversible, which empowers the caught Carbon Dioxide to be utilized to create different items like…

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