{"id":124483,"date":"2021-07-01T12:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/new-five-metal-alloy-makes-for-2d-catalyst-to-convert-co2-into-fuels"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T19:23:16","slug":"new-five-metal-alloy-makes-for-2d-catalyst-to-convert-co2-into-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/new-five-metal-alloy-makes-for-2d-catalyst-to-convert-co2-into-fuels","title":{"rendered":"New five-metal alloy makes for 2D catalyst to convert CO2 into fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-five-metal-alloy-makes-for-2d-catalyst-to-convert-co2-into-fuels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have created an unusual new alloy made up of not two, but five different metals, and put it to work as a catalyst. The new material is two-dimensional, and was able to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide effectively, potentially helping to turn the greenhouse gas into fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The new alloy belongs to a class of materials called <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/molybdenum-di-sulphide-metal-graphene\/33980\/\">transition metal dichalcogenides<\/a> (TMDCs), which are, as the name suggests, made up of combinations of transition metals and chalcogens. Extremely thin films of TMDCs have recently shown promise in a range of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/flexible-supercapacitor-nanomaterials-ucf\/46595\/\">electronic<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/2d-laser-photonics-berkeley-lab\/39968\/\">optical devices<\/a>, but researchers on the new study wondered if they could also be used as catalysts for chemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The thinking goes that because reactions occur on the surface of a catalyst, materials with high surface areas will be more effective catalysts. And as sheets only a few atoms thick, TMDCs are almost nothing but surface area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have created an unusual new alloy made up of not two, but five different metals, and put it to work as a catalyst. The new material is two-dimensional, and was able to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide effectively, potentially helping to turn the greenhouse gas into fuels. The new alloy belongs to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124483","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\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}