Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, ...
A small glass tube, a copper coating, and a burst of plasma no hotter than room temperature. That is the setup behind a new reactor at Northwestern University that converts methane gas directly into ...
A laboratory setup shows yellowish and bluish light from two lamps shining on a metallic reactor. Deep-ultraviolet, infrared, and visible light shine on carbon dioxide and methane in a reactor, ...
Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...
Scientists have unveiled a sunlight-powered catalyst that transforms methane—the main component of natural gas—directly into ethanol, a high-value liquid fuel and chemical feedstock. The new material, ...
Methane is an abundant but low-value fuel and a significant greenhouse gas. Photocatalytic conversion of methane into transportable liquid oxygenated compounds (MTLOs), such as methanol and ethanol, ...