Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have succeeded in unlocking the potential of carbon dioxide – a common greenhouse gas – by converting it into a more useful product. Using organocatalysts, the IBN researchers activated carbon dioxide in a mild and non-toxic process to produce methanol, a widely used industrial feedstock and clean-burning biofuel.
Published recently in leading international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, IBN’s report has been designated a ‘Hot Paper’ and determined by reviewers to be “very important” – a recognition provided to less than 10% of the journal’s manuscripts.
