{"id":188471,"date":"2024-05-01T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-say-new-material-can-suck-carbon-out-of-atmosphere-faster-than-trees"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:24:18","slug":"scientists-say-new-material-can-suck-carbon-out-of-atmosphere-faster-than-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-say-new-material-can-suck-carbon-out-of-atmosphere-faster-than-trees","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say New Material Can Suck Carbon Out of Atmosphere Faster Than Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-new-material-can-suck-carbon-out-of-atmosphere-faster-than-trees2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists in the United Kingdom say they\u2019ve discovered a porous material that has the potential to store large quantities of greenhouse gases, making it a possible new tool in the arsenal to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists detailed how they used computational models to develop this material in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44160-024-00531-7#Sec3\" class=\"\">newly published paper<\/a> in the journal <em>Nature Synthesis<\/em>, arguing that certain features of the structure could make it excellent storage for carbon dioxide and sulphur hexafluoride, another powerful greenhouse gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting discovery because we need new porous materials to help solve society\u2019s biggest challenges,\u201d engineering professor Marc Little from Edinburgh\u2019s Heriot-Watt University said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-scientists-porous-material-greenhouse-gases.html\" class=\"\">statement about the research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists in the United Kingdom say they\u2019ve discovered a porous material that has the potential to store large quantities of greenhouse gases, making it a possible new tool in the arsenal to fight climate change. The scientists detailed how they used computational models to develop this material in a newly published paper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188471","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=188471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}