{"id":2907,"date":"2022-02-17T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T05:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/?post_type=nus-news&p=2907"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:10:43","slug":"addressing-a-key-challenge-in-converting-co2-to-valuable-products-using-electricity","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/news\/addressing-a-key-challenge-in-converting-co2-to-valuable-products-using-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing a key challenge in converting CO2 to valuable products using electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Converting carbon dioxide into valuable and much needed chemicals using renewable electricity is a promising and environmentally sustainable route that mitigates greenhouse gas emissions. However, one of the long-standing challenges that limits the practical viability of this method has been the fact that only a small fraction of the CO2<\/sub> is converted to usable molecules that contain two or more carbon atoms; this is due to the reaction environments typically used, which are primarily alkaline in nature.<\/p>\n

A team of researchers, including Dr. Yanwei Lum at NUS ChBE, has recently developed a breakthrough that could overcome this long-standing challenge by using a simple salt \u2013 potassium chloride \u2013 and concentrating this near the electrodes using a novel engineering strategy. This makes it possible to convert CO2<\/sub> into valuable multi-carbon molecules\u00a0under strongly acidic reaction environments with unprecedented efficiencies.<\/p>\n

You can read all about this groundbreaking strategy at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abg6582<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Converting carbon dioxide into valuable and much needed chemicals using renewable electricity is a promising and environmentally sustainable route that mitigates greenhouse gas emissions. However, one of the long-standing challenges that limits the practical viability of this method has been the fact that only a small fraction of the CO2 is converted to usable molecules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2906,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[21],"class_list":["post-2907","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14165,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2907\/revisions\/14165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/chbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}