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Shear genius: Researchers find way to Scale up Wonder Material, which could do wonders for the Earth

A factory with smoke coming out of it
Many industries use carbon capture to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which has little commercial value. However, with minimal energy input, using electricity to catalyze a reaction, MOF-525 can convert the captured CO2 to carbon monoxide — a chemical that is valuable in manufacturing.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have figured out how to take a miracle material, one capable of extracting value from captured carbon dioxide, and do what no one else has: make it practical to fabricate for large-scale application.

The breakthrough from chemical engineering assistant professor Gaurav “Gino” Giri’s lab group has implications for the cleanup of the greenhouse gas, a major contributor to the climate change dilemma...

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Astronomers observe Supermassive Black Hole Feeding and Feedback on Sub-Parsec Scales

Black holes are messy eaters
Carbon monoxide (CO; indicating the presence of medium-density molecular gas) is shown in red; atomic carbon (C; indicating the presence of atomic gas) in blue; hydrogen cyanide (HCN; indicating the presence of high density molecular gas) in green; and the hydrogen recombination line (H36α; indicating the presence of ionized gas) in pink. The size of the central dense gas disk (green) is approximately 6 light-years. The plasma outflow travels almost perpendicular to the disk. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Izumi et al.

An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has achieved a milestone by observing the nearby active galactic nucleus of the Circinus Galaxy, with an extremely high resolution (approximat...

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Trio of Infant Planets discovered around Newborn Star

Last year, the Dawn spacecraft spied organic material near Ernutet crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, largest denizen of the asteroid belt. A new analysis suggests those organics could be more plentiful than originally thought. Credit: NASA / Hannah Kaplan

Last year, the Dawn spacecraft spied organic material near Ernutet crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, largest denizen of the asteroid belt. A new analysis suggests those organics could be more plentiful than originally thought. Credit: NASA / Hannah Kaplan

New technique could find some of the youngest planets in our galaxy. Two independent teams of astronomers have uncovered convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around an infant star known as HD 163296. Using a new planet-finding strategy, the astronomers identified 3 discrete disturbances in a young star’s gas-filled disk: the strongest evidence yet that newly formed planets are in orbit there.

Over the past several years, ALMA has transformed our understanding of protoplanetary disks – the gas- and dust-filled planet f...

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New Hydrocarbon Fuel Cells with High Efficiency and Low Cost

This is the exsolution of a B-site cation with oxygen from layered perovskite in a reducing atmosphere. Credit: UNIST

This is the exsolution of a B-site cation with oxygen from layered perovskite in a reducing atmosphere. Credit: UNIST

The commercialization of the ‘natural gas fuel cell’ has finally come to the fore, thanks to the recent development of electrode materials that maintain long-term stability in hydrocarbon fuels. Advantage of using this material includes that it uses internal transition metal as a further catalyst in a fuel cell operating condition. The collaborative results, published online in the June issue of the journal Nature Communications, have emerged as the promising candidate for the next generation direct hydrocarbon solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) technology.

A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is an electrochemical conversion device that produces electricity by oxidizing a fuel...

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