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Taming Defects in Nanoporous Materials to Put Them to a Good Use
R&D Magazine Online , 8th Aug 2018
A team led by Dr. Marco Taddei, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at Swansea University, is investigating how the properties of metal-organic frameworks, a class of materials resembling microscopic sponges, can be adjusted by taking advantage of their defects to make them better at capturing CO2.
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Taming defects in nanoporous materials to put them to a good use
Swansea University - Latest Research , 2nd Aug 2018
Energy Safety Research Institute reveals fundamental aspects of defective materials that can be employed to capture CO2.
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How is nanotechnology contributing to the Clean Growth Grand Challenge?
5th Jul 2018
Dr Alvin Orbaek White from Swansea University presented his research project which involves the upcycling of plastics, primarily from waste food packaging, as a carbon source for making carbon nanotubes, a nanomaterial with strength, conduction and high surface area properties. He said: “Instead of plastics ending up in our water – as microplastic in our sea salt or in our food – or ending up in landfill and polluting our natural environment, we should consider this material as a reservoir of highly purified carbon sources that could be used for other purposes.”
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UK Environmental Coalition Pursues Carbon Quantum Wire and Capacitance in Support of Government's Recently Announced Clean Growth Initiative
Cision , 2nd Jul 2018
Consistent with this objective, and highlighting the important role of innovation in supporting cost reduction, a collaboration of Very Large Scale Decarbonization Partners (VLS Decarb) and Swansea University's Energy Safety and Research Institute (ESRI) is developing carbon nanotube quantum conducting wire and capacitor technologies; the latter of which will provide a vastly superior battery alternative to lithium ion battery technology and other chemical battery formats, the former of which will afford huge savings in energy costs by virtue of drastically reducing energy losses in electric power transmissions lines and affording the storage of intermittently produced electric power from renewables such as wind, wave and sun.
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30 percent of the UK's natural gas could be replaced by hydrogen, cutting carbon emissions
EurekAlert! The Global Source for Science News , 10th Jun 2018
Almost a third of the natural gas fuelling UK homes and businesses could be replaced by hydrogen, a carbon free fuel, without requiring any changes to the nation's boilers and ovens, a pioneering study by Swansea University researchers has shown.
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