Coal Produced from Atmospheric Carbon

It is rather amazing to see the ingenuity of scientists when it comes to extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. In an article in "nature communications" a team of scientists are writing about creating coal from CO2 at room temperature. Super cool (pun intended)! 




OK, so I prefer vodka to coal, but the science is fascinating.

You can read all the technical details at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08824-8



For correctness here the citation: 


Esrafilzadeh, D., Zavabeti, A., Jalili, R. et al. Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces. Nat Commun 10, 865 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08824-8

The original artical is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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