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A plasma upstream of a copper electrode turns CO2 into methanol and butane
A Yale group reports in Nature Catalysis that exciting CO2 in a plasma before it reaches a copper electrode yields methanol and butane, products the team says electrocatalysis alone does not make. The cell runs at room temperature.
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