Chemically, carbon dioxide is incredibly simple – it is just one carbon atom linked with two oxygen atoms. Together they create a colorless gas that makes up just a tiny fraction of the Earth's ...

As the severity of climate change and carbon emissions becomes a global concern, technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into resources such as chemical fuels and compounds are urgently needed.

The goal of tackling global warming by turning carbon dioxide into fuel could be one step closer with researchers using a supercomputer to identify a group of “single-atom” catalysts that could play a ...

Effective conversion of carbon dioxide (CO 2) – the culprit of global warming – into valuable chemicals provides an attractive pathway to achieving carbon neutrality. Single-atom catalysts (SAC) have ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions ...

The catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol represents a promising strategy to mitigate atmospheric CO₂ levels while producing a versatile chemical feedstock and energy carrier. This ...

Carbon capture and storage is an old technology, first commercialized in the 1970s. Back then it was called enhanced oil recovery, because the carbon dioxide recovered from oil and gas production was ...

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) reduction by electrocatalysis is thought to be a useful tactic for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the energy problem. Because it is an essential feedstock for the ...

A new reagent has moved carbon-atom transfer out of the chemical flatlands, allowing chemists to place a single carbon atom so that it makes bonds to four different substituents. The reagent makes ...

Diamonds hitch a ride to Earth's surface inside a rare magma called kimberlite, but only if that magma stays buoyant.