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Researchers use “bottled lightning” to turn methane into liquid fuel
Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, but this electrified reaction tackles a problem that has frustrated chemists ...
People often muse over catching lightning in a bottle, and what an amazing feat it would be. But have you ever wondered what ...
Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid ...
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US: Scientists catch 'lightning in a bottle' to convert methane into clean fuel
Researchers at Northwestern University in the US have successfully produced methanol from methane gas ...
Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.
With the aim to precisely understand its function, researchers from the Inorganic Chemistry Department and Interface Science ...
Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...
The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...
Researchers from National Taiwan University and Chulalongkorn University developed a copper-based catalyst system that ...
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US chemists turn natural gas into liquid fuel without high heat and pressures
Chemists in the United States have discovered a new way to turn natural gas ...
A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the UK Catalysis Hub has shed new light on the dynamics of methanol within copper-loaded zeolites, offering promising insights into the development of ...
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