Larger catalyst batches could make carbon recycling cheaper and easier to scale
Researchers from the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M have developed a method to produce carbon-recycling catalysts in 75-gram batches, significantly larger than previous milligram-scale efforts. This advancement addresses a major scalability bottleneck in converting carbon dioxide into industrial chemicals.
Why it matters
Scaling up catalyst production is essential for making carbon capture and recycling technologies commercially viable, which is a key step in reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
by Clara Turnage, University of Mississippi
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Add as preferred source (a) Bright-field TEM, (b) high-resolution TEM, and (c) HAADF-STEM and corresponding elemental maps of CNT-Mel-75g. Credit: ACS Omega (2026). DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6c02693 Turning carbon dioxide into industrial chemicals used in everything from synthetic fuels to plastics and pharmaceuticals is costly. But new research shows it does not have to be.
A study by University of Mississippi researcher Ahmed Badreldin and Carter Racine, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at Texas A&M University, demonstrated a simpler, lower-cost way to produce carbon-recycling catalysts at much larger scales, addressing one of the biggest barriers to commercial adoption. They published their results in the journal ACS Omega .
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