Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products

Image caption: MIT chemical engineers have shown that by using DNA to tether a catalyst (blue circles) to an electrode, they can make the conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide much more efficient. Image credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT; iStock. Article by Anne Trafton. MIT News – March 27, 2024.

A catalyst tethered by DNA boosts the efficiency of the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO, a building block for many chemical compounds.

MIT chemical engineers have devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a chemical precursor that can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels. If scaled up for industrial use, this process could help to […]

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