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://phys.org/news/2022-06-holy-grail-catalysisturning-methane-methanol.html "MOF... serving as sort of test tube... combine different substances... neutron scattering take 'pictures' at VISION instrument confirmed interactions between CH4 and mono-iron-hydroxyl sites that weaken C-H bonds," said Yongqiang Cheng, instrument scientist at the ORNL Neutron Sciences Directorate. VISION is a ... high-throughput neutron vibrational spectrometer optimized to... provide information about molecular structure, chemical bonding and intermolecular interactions" Related:  Scientists use computational modeling to design 'ultrastable' materials https://phys.org/news/2023-04-scientists-ultrastable-materials.html Reducing the carbon footprint of methane by converting it into methanol with a new enzyme https://phys.org/news/2023-09-carbon-footprint-methane-methanol-enzyme.html Scientists make methanol at room temperature https://phys.org/news/2023-09-scientists-methanol...

https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/making-methane-co2-carbon-capture-grows-more-affordable "new method reduces the materials needed to run the reaction, the energy needed to fuel it and, ultimately, the selling price of the gas" Related: Catalyst study advances carbon-dioxide-to-ethanol conversion https://phys.org/news/2021-09-catalyst-advances-carbon-dioxide-to-ethanol-conversion.html Study explores the degradation mechanisms in Cu2O photoelectrodes for CO2 reduction https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-explores-degradation-mechanisms-cu2o-photoelectrodes.html Copper Gets Us Closer to Using CO2 Pollution as Fuel https://www.electrochem.org/ecsnews/copper-gets-us-closer-using-co2-pollution-fuel/ Cu/CuNC dual-site interface promotes carbon dioxide electroreduction to ethanol https://phys.org/news/2023-02-cucunc-dual-site-interface-carbon-dioxide.html Researchers prepare ethylene by single-atom catalytic electroreduction of CO2 https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ethylene-single-atom-cat...