Oregon State University scientists have found a way to more than double the uptake ability of a chemical structure that can be used for scrubbing carbon dioxide from factory flues.
The study involving metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, is important because industrial activities, among them burning fossil fuels for energy, account for a significant percentage of the greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. In the United States, 16% of total carbon dioxide emissions are from industry, according to the Environmental Protection Agency(Link is external).
OSU researchers led by Kyriakos Stylianou of the College of Science worked with a copper-based MOF and found that its effectiveness at adsorbing carbon dioxide more than doubled when first exposed to ammonia gas.
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