Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Catalyst-TiO(OH)2 could drastically reduce the energy consumption of CO2 capture

  • Qinghua Lai,
  • Sam Toan,
  • Mohammed A. Assiri,
  • Huaigang Cheng,
  • Armistead G. Russell,
  • Hertanto Adidharma,
  • Maciej Radosz,
  • Maohong Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05145-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The notoriously slow kinetics in CO2 desorption hinders the development of efficient CO2 capture technologies. Here, the authors discover that nanostructured TiO(OH)2 as a catalyst is capable of dramatically increasing the rates of CO2 desorption from spent monoethanolamine.