Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity
Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503003
What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic?
"I think that is something that we, as a society, would be interested in. After all, in addition to being a greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide is an abundant and inexpensive feedstock," says Theo Agapie, Ph.D., the John Stauffer Professor of Chemistry...
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