Excerpt from UMass News story: The Department of Energy announced renewed funding of an interdisciplinary team of researchers at UMass Amherst in chemistry and chemical engineering, studying new ways to fabricate nanoporous zeolite crystals with targeted defect patterns, which hold promise for producing carbon-neutral biofuels and capturing carbon dioxide.
“This research into how zeolite crystals form is critical for learning how to make the materials of the future for combating climate change – targeted structures to revolutionize the sustainable production of both chemicals and fuels,” said Scott Auerbach, professor of chemistry at UMass Amherst and the principal investigator of the project.
Zeolites are solid materials with regular arrays of nanometer-sized cavities, making them the most-used synthetic catalysts on the planet – widely used for petrochemical refining, and holding promise for making clean fuels from biomass and for capturing carbon dioxide in zeolite cavities.
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