Researchers create effective, low-cost material for carbon capture at power plants and maybe for cars

Carbon dioxide (depicted in red and white at left) is the main greenhouse gas warming Earth and is emitted in large quantities in the flue gas from industrial and power plants. A new method for removing CO2 from these flue gases involves piping the emissions through a porous material based on the chemical melamine (center). DETA, a chemical bound inside the porous melamine, grabs CO2 and removes it from the gas, with nitrogen vented to the atmosphere.
Aug 4 2022
Stanford Energy
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Chemists from Stanford, UC-Berkeley and Texas A&M, have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and possibly vehicles. An inexpensive polymer called melamine is used as a carbon capture material which could potentially be scaled down to capture emissions from movable sources.