In Denmark, an international research team at DTU has increased the shelf life of electrolyzers that convert CO2 from half a day to 100 hours. This is good news for companies working with the process. The findings were published in Nature Catalysis under the title “Identifying and alleviating the durability challenges in the membrane-electrode-assembly for high-rate CO electrolysis.”
Too much CO2 in the atmosphere is one of the major culprits of global warming. But imagine if we could convert captured CO2 into valuable green chemicals—and we can. The conversion is made possible through CO2 electrolysis, but the process is complex and costly.
Researchers are now one step closer to the development of a technology that can transform captured CO2 into useful green chemicals such as ethylene and ethanol, which can be used in the production of plastic.
