{"id":102153,"date":"2020-02-10T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/reverse-fuel-cell-converts-waste-carbon-to-valuable-products-at-record-rates"},"modified":"2020-02-10T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:03:58","slug":"reverse-fuel-cell-converts-waste-carbon-to-valuable-products-at-record-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/reverse-fuel-cell-converts-waste-carbon-to-valuable-products-at-record-rates","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReverse fuel cell\u201d converts waste carbon to valuable products at record rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reverse-fuel-cell-converts-waste-carbon-to-valuable-products-at-record-rates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity. Now, a U of T Engineering team has adapted technology from fuel cells to do the reverse: harness electricity to make valuable chemicals from waste carbon (CO2).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, talented researchers have been developing systems that convert electricity into hydrogen and back again,\u201d says Professor <strong>Ted Sargent<\/strong> (ECE), one of the senior authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/367\/6478\/661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a paper published today in <em>Science<\/em><\/a>. \u201cOur innovation builds on that legacy, but by using carbon-based molecules, we can plug directly into existing hydrocarbon infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen come together on the surface of a catalyst. The chemical reaction releases electrons, which are captured by specialized materials within the fuel cell and pumped into a circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity. Now, a U of T Engineering team has adapted technology from fuel cells to do the reverse: harness electricity to make valuable chemicals from waste carbon (CO2). \u201cFor decades, talented researchers have been developing systems that convert electricity into hydrogen and back again,\u201d says Professor Ted Sargent (ECE), one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}