September 16, 2019

A new route to carbon-neutral fuels from CO2

SLAC/Stanford scientists and their colleagues find a new way to efficiently convert CO2 into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels.

Graves-Bajdich-Machalo — From left: Christopher Graves, Michal Bajdich and Michael Machala in front of the pulsed laser deposition machine that Machala used to fabricate the electrodes in a study that found a new way to efficiently convert CO2 into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels. (Mark Golden/Stanford University)

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