Promising new material for capturing CO2 from smokestacks

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Researchers have developed a material that could capture up to seven times more carbon dioxide from industrial sources such as power-plant smokestacks. Credit: Photo by Dmitry Pichugin
Researchers have developed a material that could capture up to seven times more carbon dioxide from industrial sources, such as power-plant smokestacks. Credit: Photo by Dmitry Pichugin

Scientists and engineers in Georgia and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a new, low-cost material for capturing carbon dioxide from the smokestacks of coal-fired electric power plants and other industrial sources before the notorious greenhouse gas enters the atmosphere. Their study is scheduled for the March 19 issue of the ACS’ Journal of the American Chemical Society.


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