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=====Breaking carbon dioxide faster, cheaper, and more efficiently===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2019-11-carbon-dioxide-faster-cheaper-efficiently.html PhysOrg 11/15/19] | |||
Now, a team of researchers led by Yongtao Meng, a former UConn graduate student in the lab of Institute for Materials Science Director Steve Suib and now a researcher at Stanford University, has come up with a better way. They created an electrochemical cell filled with a porous, foamy catalyst made of nickel and iron. Both metals are cheap and abundant. When carbon dioxide gas enters the electrochemical cell, and a voltage is applied, the catalyst helps the carbon dioxide (a carbon atom with two oxygens) break off oxygen to form carbon monoxide (a carbon atom with one oxygen.) The carbon monoxide is very reactive and a useful precursor for making many kinds of chemicals, including plastics and fuels such as gasoline. | |||
=====Data science could help Californians battle future wildfires===== | =====Data science could help Californians battle future wildfires===== | ||
[https://theconversation.com/data-science-could-help-californians-battle-future-wildfires-126316 The Conversation 11/12/2019] | [https://theconversation.com/data-science-could-help-californians-battle-future-wildfires-126316 The Conversation 11/12/2019] | ||
