{"id":182549,"date":"2024-02-12T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/vanadium-research-makes-key-advance-for-capturing-carbon-from-the-air"},"modified":"2024-02-12T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T19:27:02","slug":"vanadium-research-makes-key-advance-for-capturing-carbon-from-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/vanadium-research-makes-key-advance-for-capturing-carbon-from-the-air","title":{"rendered":"Vanadium research makes key advance for capturing carbon from the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vanadium-research-makes-key-advance-for-capturing-carbon-from-the-air3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A chemical element so visually striking it was named for a goddess shows a \u201cGoldilocks\u201d level of reactivity\u2014neither too much nor too little\u2014that makes it a strong candidate as a carbon scrubbing tool.<\/p>\n<p>The element is <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vanadium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vanadium<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlehtml\/2024\/sc\/d3sc05381d\">research<\/a> by Oregon State University scientists, published in <i>Chemical Science<\/i>, has demonstrated the ability of vanadium peroxide molecules to react with and bind <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide <\/a>\u2014an important step toward improved technologies for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The study is part of a $24 million federal effort to develop new methods for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/direct+air+capture\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">direct air capture<\/a>, or DAC, of carbon dioxide, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/greenhouse+gas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">greenhouse gas<\/a> that\u2019s produced by the burning of fossil fuels and is associated with climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chemical element so visually striking it was named for a goddess shows a \u201cGoldilocks\u201d level of reactivity\u2014neither too much nor too little\u2014that makes it a strong candidate as a carbon scrubbing tool. The element is vanadium, and research by Oregon State University scientists, published in Chemical Science, has demonstrated the ability of vanadium peroxide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182549","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=182549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}