While the potential impact of carbon dioxide utilization technologies is immense — commanding as much as $800 billion by the end of the decade and using 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year — technical challenges such as the lack of efficient catalysts mean that there are few commercial processes in use to convert carbon dioxide into products like building materials, fuels, and plastics. This project seeks to understand how transition metal catalysts can be tuned to selectively form a single product from carbon dioxide. Over the long term, this could lead to new and improved catalysts to produce fuels, such as methanol, or commodity chemicals, such as formic acid, from carbon dioxide.
Participants
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Nilay Hazari
Chair and John Randolph Huffman Professor of Chemistry
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Mingjiang Zhong
Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
