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IN A NUTSHELL 🌞 Researchers in Japan have achieved a breakthrough by dramatically enhancing the efficiency of producing clean fuel from sunlight through innovative catalyst redesign. 🔬 The team’s focus on lead-based oxyhalides increased the surface area of catalyst particles, leading to record-high quantum yields for hydrogen production. ⚗️ A novel microwave-assisted synthesis method allowed for the creation of ultra-small …

A soil-dwelling microbe has shown a surprising ability to trap carbon dioxide and turn it into rock. Scientists have discovered that Bacillus megaterium, a common bacterium long known for its role in biotechnology, can convert CO₂ gas into solid calcium carbonate with an efficiency rarely seen in either nature or industry. The process, recently detailed in a study led by …

For decades there has been this tantalizing idea being pitched of pulling CO2 out of the air and using the carbon molecules for something more useful, like making plastics. Although this is a fairly simple process, it is also remarkably inefficient. Recently Caltech researchers have managed to boost the efficiency somewhat with a new two-stage process involving electrocatalysis and thermocatalysis …