Topic

Carbon capture

Technologies and materials for separating carbon dioxide from gas streams, spanning liquid absorbents, solid sorbents and selective membranes.

Current clusters

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A layered crystal admits carbon dioxide by pushing its own sheets apart

A team at Shibaura Institute of Technology reports carbon dioxide uptake at 2.0 pascals at 195 kelvin and separation from nitrogen and methane in humid gas at 303 kelvin, with electrostatic complementarity as the selection rule.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence55

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Kyoto chemists tune a porous liquid's viscosity 170-million-fold from the cage surface alone

The pore volume stayed put while the flow behaviour moved by a factor of 170 million, which is the trade-off that has held these gas-capture fluids back. A process engineer still can't size a loop from what the paper reports, since no capacity figure appears yet.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence57