With the clock ticking to avoid climate catastrophe, every action is important to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that we release into the atmosphere. Now, researchers at the University of Waterloo might have found a way to capture a lot more of the emissions produced by factories and power plants. The scientists developed an extremely porous carbon powder that can capture a large amount of the greenhouse gas. The powder is made of carbon nanospheres and the researchers can control the ratio and size of the pores on its surface, with many of them being less than one-millionth of a meter wide. The team was able to establish an incredibly efficient design. Their study is published in the journal Carbon . "The porosity of this material is extremely high," senior author Professor Zhongwei Chen, who holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in advanced materials for clean energy, said in a statement . "And because of their size, these pores can capture CO2 very efficiently. The performance is almost doubled. This will be more and more important in the future. We have to find ways to deal with all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels." The carbon […]
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