The University of Illinois Chicago researchers new system uses electrolysis to transform captured carbon dioxide gas into high purity ethylene, with other carbon-based fuels and oxygen as byproducts. Their reporting paper has been published in Cell Reports Physical Science. The discovery offers a way to convert 100% of carbon dioxide captured from industrial exhaust into ethylene, a key building block for plastics, and major product made from ethylene. While researchers have been exploring the possibility of converting carbon dioxide to ethylene…
