University of Queensland researchers have built a generator that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2) to make electricity – potentially opening up the door to a new industrial capture process.
Dr. Zhuyuan Wang from UQ’s Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation said the small, proof-of-concept nanogenerator is carbon negative because it consumes the greenhouse gas.
He said, “This nanogenerator is made of two components: a polyamine gel that is already used by industry to absorb CO2 and a skeleton a few atoms thick of boron nitrate that generates positive and negative ions.
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