Halting methane squanderlust

(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) The pipes that rise from oil fields, topped with burning flames of natural gas, waste fossil fuels and dump carbon dioxide into the air.

In new work, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and China's Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have identified the structure of a catalytic material that can turn methane into a safe and easy-to-transport liquid.

The insight lays the foundation for converting excess methane into a variety of useful fuels and chemicals.


 

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