{"id":4982,"date":"2019-11-22T15:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2019-11-22T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:36:59","slug":"breaking-of-carbon-dioxide-process-that-is-faster-cheaper-and-more-efficiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/breaking-of-carbon-dioxide-process-that-is-faster-cheaper-and-more-efficiently\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking of carbon dioxide: process that is faster, cheaper, and more efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Science and technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists from the University of Connecticut in the US have found a novel catalyst that breaks down carbon dioxide into useful chemicals faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than the standard method.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is changing the planet\u2019s climate, and many chemists are working on efficient ways to turn it into other useful products.<\/li>\n<li>However, carbon dioxide\u2019s stability makes this tough. It is hard to get the molecule to react with anything else.<\/li>\n<li>The best existing technique to electrochemically break carbon dioxide into pieces that will chemically react uses a catalyst made of platinum, which is a rare, expensive metal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Nickel-Iron Catalyst:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now, a team of researchers at Stanford University have created an electrochemical cell filled with a porous, foamy catalyst made of nickel and iron. Both metals are cheap and abundant.<\/li>\n<li>When carbon dioxide gas enters the electrochemical cell, and a voltage is applied, the catalyst helps the carbon dioxide (a carbon atom with two oxygens) break off oxygen to form carbon monoxide (a carbon atom with one oxygen).<\/li>\n<li>The carbon monoxide is very reactive and a useful precursor for making many kinds of chemicals, including plastics and fuels such as gasoline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Science and technology Why in news? Scientists from the University of Connecticut in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,69],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-science-and-technology","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}