New iron-based MOF captures CO₂ from flue gas and converts it to CO using light
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Vera Koester
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Researchers from City University of Hong Kong and USTC have developed a new family of iron-based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that can both capture CO₂ from gas streams (including dilute mixtures like flue gas) and use light to photochemically convert it into carbon monoxide (CO) in a single step. CO is a valuable precursor for fuels and industrial chemicals. The MOFs mimic enzyme-like pockets to achieve this two-in-one capture-and-conversion process.
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· 3 pulledBin Liu, City University of Hong Kong, P.R. China, Hai-Long Jiang, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, P.R. China, and colleagues have built a family of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) that i) captures CO₂ from a gas stream and ii) uses light to convert it to carbon monoxide.
CO is a valuable precursor for fuels and other chemicals.
The team tested their MOFs in gas mixtures containing o
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