{"id":179939,"date":"2024-01-06T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T08:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/photochemistry-and-a-new-catalyst-could-make-fertilizer-more-sustainable"},"modified":"2024-01-06T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T08:22:50","slug":"photochemistry-and-a-new-catalyst-could-make-fertilizer-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/photochemistry-and-a-new-catalyst-could-make-fertilizer-more-sustainable","title":{"rendered":"Photochemistry and a new catalyst could make fertilizer more sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photochemistry-and-a-new-catalyst-could-make-fertilizer-more-sustainable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Georgia Tech engineers are working to make fertilizer more sustainable\u2014from production to productive reuse of the runoff after application\u2014and a pair of new studies is offering promising avenues at both ends of the process.<\/p>\n<p>In one paper, researchers have unraveled how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nitrogen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nitrogen<\/a>, water, carbon, and light can interact with a catalyst to produce ammonia at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ambient+temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ambient temperature<\/a> and pressure, a much less energy-intensive approach than current practice. The second paper describes a stable catalyst able to convert waste <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fertilizer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fertilizer<\/a> back into nonpolluting nitrogen that could one day be used to make new fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Significant work remains on both processes, but the senior author on the papers, Marta Hatzell, said they\u2019re a step toward a more sustainable cycle that still meets the needs of a growing worldwide population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Tech engineers are working to make fertilizer more sustainable\u2014from production to productive reuse of the runoff after application\u2014and a pair of new studies is offering promising avenues at both ends of the process. In one paper, researchers have unraveled how nitrogen, water, carbon, and light can interact with a catalyst to produce ammonia at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179939","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}