A new kind of methane reactor is promising something that has long sounded too good to be true: turning fossil gas into clean hydrogen while locking the carbon away in valuable nanotubes instead of ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An international team, led by Penn State’s Institute of Energy and the Environment Director Bruce Logan, has developed a new reactor design that efficiently converts carbon ...

Photograph of a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition reactor. Recycling gases through this floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition reactor offers a more efficient route to making carbon ...

An overview of the researchers’ continuous-flow reactor, which uses a technique known as floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (FCCVD) to enable the continuous mass production of carbon ...

Carbon dioxide is best known as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, but scientists are increasingly ...

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Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah was a co-author on a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) that recommends a national research agenda for ...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new reactor that converts natural gas (a common energy source primarily composed of methane) into two highly valuable resources: clean ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says the U.S. should pursue a two-phase approach to understand the need and potential for atmospheric ...