[EMmim][NTf ]-a Novel Ionic Liquid (IL) in Catalytic CO Capture and ILs' Applications.

Ionic liquids (ILs) have been used for carbon dioxide (CO ) capture, however, which have never been used as catalysts to accelerate CO capture. The record is broken by a uniquely designed IL, [EMmim][NTf ]. The IL can universally catalyze both CO sorption and desorption of all the chemisorption-based technologies.

TiO(OH) - highly effective catalysts for optimizing CO desorption kinetics reducing CO capture cost: A new pathway.

The objective is to find a new pathway for significant reduction in CO capture energy consumption. Specifically, nanoporous TiO(OH) was used to realize the objective, which was desired as a catalyst to significantly accelerate the decomposition of aqueous NaHCO, essentially CO desorption - the key step of NaCO/NaHCO based CO capture technologies from overall CO energy consumption perspective. Effects of several important factors on TiO(OH)-catalyzed NaHCO decomposition were investigated.

Borate-catalyzed carbon dioxide hydration via the carbonic anhydrase mechanism.

The hydration of CO(2) plays a critical role in carbon capture and geoengineering technologies currently under development to mitigate anthropogenic global warming and in environmental processes such as ocean acidification. Here we reveal that borate catalyzes the conversion of CO(2) to HCO(3)(-) via the same fundamental mechanism as the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, which is responsible for CO(2) hydration in the human body. In this mechanism the tetrahydroxyborate ion, B(OH)(4)(-), is the active form of boron that undergoes direct reaction with CO(2).