Will hot sparks fly when thermal catalysts meets electrical?
How valuable would it be if two different teams working on different types of catalytic reactions – one relying on heat based catalysis and another on electricity based catalysis – started interacting with each other?
Can one catalyse the other when they meet?
We will soon find out as that’s what has started happening at Stanford Univ. ( https://lnkd.in/gW_4xSYr ), thanks to the synthesis of a new catalyst that can be used for both heat-driven and electricity-driven (thermochemical & electrochemical to be more precise) reactions.
Apparently, these two types of teams even within the same university or research outfits rarely interact – and this in a world where people from different corners of the world can connect within seconds!
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Synergies between these thermochemical and electrochemical disciplines could hopefully lead to better synthesis of CO2 into chemicals. As a first step, the catalyst being developed can convert CO2 to
carbonmonoxide using either of the approaches – heat or electricity. CO can be used for further conversion to liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Stanford University | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Glennda Chui | Thomas Jaramillo | Sindhu Nathan | Stacey Bent | David Koshy | Zhenan Bao
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