{"id":210474,"date":"2025-04-03T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/with-affordable-materials-researchers-pull-carbon-directly-from-the-air-using-changes-in-humidity"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:03:04","slug":"with-affordable-materials-researchers-pull-carbon-directly-from-the-air-using-changes-in-humidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/with-affordable-materials-researchers-pull-carbon-directly-from-the-air-using-changes-in-humidity","title":{"rendered":"With affordable materials, researchers pull carbon directly from the air using changes in humidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/with-affordable-materials-researchers-pull-carbon-directly-from-the-air-using-changes-in-humidity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Northwestern University have expanded the potential of carbon capture technology that plucks CO<sub>2<\/sub> directly from the air by demonstrating that there are multiple suitable and abundant materials that can facilitate direct air capture.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper titled \u201cPlatform materials for moisture-swing carbon capture\u201d published in the journal <i>Environmental Science &amp; Technology<\/i>, the researchers present new, lower-cost materials to facilitate moisture-swing to catch and then release CO<sub>2<\/sub> depending on the local air\u2019s moisture content, calling it \u201cone of the most promising approaches for CO<sub>2<\/sub> capture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> continues to increase and, despite considerable worldwide efforts to cut down on carbon waste, is expected to rise more in coming decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Northwestern University have expanded the potential of carbon capture technology that plucks CO2 directly from the air by demonstrating that there are multiple suitable and abundant materials that can facilitate direct air capture. In a paper titled \u201cPlatform materials for moisture-swing carbon capture\u201d published in the journal Environmental Science &amp; Technology, the researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210474","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}