Project description
Novel catalysts help turn CO2 into fuel and chemicals
Catalysts are essential components of chemical reactions, both those occurring in nature and those engineered for applications. Without them, many reactions would not proceed or would do so at rates so slow that they would be rendered useless. Electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to other chemicals is one of these reactions. It is an important way to reduce the amount of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and foster a circular economy, but the current catalysts are highly inefficient. The EU-funded STRATCAT-CO2 project will develop techniques to enhance the catalytic conversion of CO2 to ethanol and ethylene, a key fuel and a chemical building block, respectively.
Fields of science
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistry
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysiselectrocatalysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryalcohols
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinator
2800 Kongens Lyngby
Denmark
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