Revealing carbon capture chemistry with 17-oxygen NMR spectroscopy.

Carbon dioxide capture is essential to achieve net-zero emissions. A hurdle to the design of improved capture materials is the lack of adequate tools to characterise how CO adsorbs. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a promising probe of CO capture, but it remains challenging to distinguish different adsorption products.

Methanol as a Hydrogen Carrier: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Drivers for its CO -Based Synthesis and Reforming over Heterogeneous Catalysts.

Methanol is an attractive energy vector in a closed loop including its synthesis from CO and H and on-demand reforming to the starting feedstocks. Catalytic materials for the two reactions were mostly studied separately, with very few works assessing the feasibility of the same system for both. Here, key kinetic drivers of methanol synthesis (MS) and methanol steam reforming (MSR) were identified for the main catalyst families, with special focus on Cu-ZnO-Al O , In O , and Pd/ZrO .