Opinion on nanomaterials for carbon capture and conversion

Abstract

the simultaneous use of an abundant by-product: it not only provides products that benefit both households and industry, but also represents a proactive step towards maintaining our fragile global climate. Therefore, new technologies based on innovative materials and processes need to be built to reduce the disastrous effects of weather disasters and global warming and to achieve a sustainable energy future, enabling the capture and simultaneous conversion of CO2 into useful chemical compounds. Some possible CO2 storage facilities are provided by depleted oil or gas reserves and deep sub-sea or onshore saline aquifers (Figure 2).1,2