Study finds copper catalysts work better at converting CO2 to renewable fuel when they gain and lose oxygen atoms

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By mmillikinJul 20, 2020, 4:00 am198 pts
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Caltech have found that copper that was once bound with oxygen is better at converting carbon dioxide into renewable fuels than copper that was never bound to oxygen. For their study, published in the journal ACS Catalysis, the scientists…

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