Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1075681 "could provide around 16% of nickel needed by 2030, but even greater impact can be achieved by upcycling nickel together with upcycling alumina from used aluminium foil into high-performance nanocatalyst in an eco-friendly way... nanocatalyst consists of 92-96% aluminium oxide and 4-8% nickel, optimal for converting CO2 together with hydrogen into methane at atmospheric pressure and an easily achievable temperature of 250°C" Related: A new method to recycle fluoride from long-lived PFAS chemicals https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077959 Carbon-free, energy-saving method to extract nickel for batteries and stainless steel https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082313 Altilium claim breakthrough in UKBIC-made EV battery cells using recycled CAM https://www.bestmag.co.uk/altilium-claim-breakthrough-in-ukbic-made-ev-battery-cells-using-recycled-cam/ TU Vienna Turns Battery Waste into a Clean Energy Catalyst https://opent...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1072103 "produces ethane/,ethylene,  glycerate, lactate, formate... also input water/ glycerol (oxidized using silicon nanowire electrodes)... 200X better (by using glycerol) than earlier systems splitting water and CO2... design of catalyst’s surface area influences which products generated... making the process more selective... current CO₂-to-hydrocarbon selectivity remains around 10%, but researchers are optimistic about improving catalyst design to increase efficiency" Related: Chemists discover new method to transform carbon dioxide to formate https://phys.org/news/2025-03-chemists-method-carbon-dioxide-formate.html#google_vignette Novel material holds promise for tech to convert CO2 into fuel https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077937 Turning carbon dioxide into fuel just got easier, thanks to acid bubbles https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086660 Nickel catalyst opens door to sustainable, branched hydrocarbon fuels...

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbon-dioxide-converted-into-carbon-nanotube-based-3d-printer-ink/4020755.article "electrolysis/ thermochemical reactor reduces carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, channelled into thermochemical reactor, steel wool catalyst converts into carbon nanotubes (38% by weight), used in 3D printer creating strong/ lightweight high-quality thermoset carbon nanocomposites... 90% cost reduction in carbon nanotube production... transport, construction" Related: Breakthrough catalyst turns carbon dioxide into essential ingredient for clean fuels https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104117

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-potential-anti-perovskites-convenient-synthesis.html "inverted electrical configuration, negative thermal expansion, ionic conductivity... nano amorphous silicon nitride ceramic with nm-sized Ni3InN anti-perovskite crystals embedded... polysilazane precursor chemically modified to include NiCl2 and InCl3 with ammonia heated to 300 °C becomes a-SiN matrix with embedded anti-perovskites in single step... adding excess InCl3, enables single phase Ni3InN... highly microporous, can adsorb/ desorb CO2 for clean energy applications, potential new catalytic functionalities" Related: Non-equimolar compositional design regulates lattice strain and polyhedral distortion in single-phase m'-RETaO4 ceramics, enabling the simultaneous optimization of TECs and thermal conductivity https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1139440

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-carbon-dioxide-protein-animal.html "bioreactor," said Rowe. "This is the... same technology used to make enzymes... put into fermentation tank as gas... hydrogen added to serve as an energy source.. .After cellular process  complete, protein dried into powder... ingredient in sustainable animal feed... The Deep Branch process converts carbon dioxide into a powder, called Proton, which has around 70% protein content. This is much higher than natural soy, which has around 40%" Related: Review of technologies that boost potential for carbon dioxide conversion to useful products https://phys.org/news/2022-07-technologies-boost-potential-carbon-dioxide.html Researchers reveal elusive bottleneck holding back global effort to convert carbon dioxide waste into usable products https://phys.org/news/2024-02-reveal-elusive-bottleneck-global-effort.html Using byproducts from agricultural and food production to create sustainable feed for livestock ...

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-fluorine-doping-method-catalysts.html "synthesized iron-nitrogen-carbon using adsorption pyrolysis... carbon dioxide electroreduction experiments in H-type cell and gas diffusion electrode cell... theoretical calculations... improvements that happened with fluorine doping. Electrochemical tests... enriched defects by fluorine-doping kinetically increase electroactive surface area and improve charge transfer,... carbon dioxide electroreduction to carbon monoxide performance of iron-nitrogen-carbon catalysts by stabilizing Fe3+ sites" Related: In an advance for solar fuels, hybrid materials improve photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-advance-solar-fuels-hybrid-materials.html Researchers realize paired electrosynthesis of dimethyl carbonate with single-atom catalyst https://phys.org/news/2023-02-paired-electrosynthesis-dimethyl-carbonate-single-atom.html Carbon dioxide electrolysis as an alternative to coal ht...

https://newatlas.com/environment/hydrogen-greenhouse-gas/ "hydrogen's Global Warming Potential (GWP) is about twice bad as previously understood; over a 100-year time period, tonne of hydrogen in atmosphere will warm Earth some 11 times more than tonne CO2, with uncertainty of ± 5. Hydrogen reacts with same tropospheric oxidants that clean up methane. Methane is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas, causing some 80 times more warming than equivalent weight CO2 over first 20 years"

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-02-scientists-delineate-tumor-formation-kras.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter " "revealed that Kras-induced chromatin remodeling was mediated by a protein complex called AP-1, which binds and opens chromatins to rewire the cell's fate. The AP-1 mediated chromatin accessibility mechanism seems to be a common process in tumor initiation, including in the lung, skin, and intestine"