How can we convert CO2 into useable nanomaterials
Break down carbon dioxide (CO2) into its harmless components, carbon and oxygen, and we could end the need to pump billions of tonnes of the main greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.
Dr Raymond Whitby, from the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, has taken the first steps to find a new way of disposing of the waste from power stations, a method involving the firing of lasers at CO2.
His work won him a share of the 2008 Staff Innovation Award with Professor Andy Cundy, from the university's School of Environment and Technology, and Professor Toru Maekawa of Toyo University who have also worked on the idea.
Dr Whitby is talking to businesses and applying for grants to take the research project, called RoCOCO (Reduction of Critically Opalescent CO2) forward.
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