Scientists have developed a sunlight-powered reactor that directly captures CO2 from the air and transforms it into ...

“I think I’m maybe an impatient person, but for me ... depends on the size of the vessel and the amount of CO2 to capture. “Picture a 20-foot shipping container,” she says.

Case Western Reserve chemical engineer Burcu Gurkan, PhD, has looked to the heavens—and, recently, Earth—to find ways to better capture carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the air. The Nord Distinguished ...

One of the ways dissolved quinones trap carbon is a form of direct capture, in which quinones receive an electrical charge and undergo a reduction reaction that gives them affinity to CO2. The ...

DETA, a chemical bound inside the porous melamine, grabs CO2 and removes it from the gas, with nitrogen vented to the atmosphere. Credit Haiyan Mao and Jeffrey Reimer, UC Berkeley ...