From greenhouse gas to value-added product

© Dogukan Apaydin / TU Wien If one converts CO2 into synthesis gas, a valuable starting material for the chemical industry can be obtained. Researchers at TU Wien show how this works even at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Thinking of CO₂, terms like climate-damaging or waste product probably quickly come to mind. While CO₂ has been that for a long time - a pure waste product - more and more processes are being developed with which the greenhouse gas can be converted into valuable raw materials. Researchers then speaks of "value-added chemicals". A new material with which this is possible was developed at TU Wien and recently presented in the journal "Communications Chemistry". Researchers at Dominik Eder's group developed a new material that facilitates the conversion of CO₂.