{"id":212725,"date":"2025-04-29T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-crack-decades-old-puzzle-in-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel-conversion"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:08:04","slug":"scientists-crack-decades-old-puzzle-in-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-crack-decades-old-puzzle-in-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel-conversion","title":{"rendered":"Scientists crack decades-old puzzle in carbon dioxide-to-fuel conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-crack-decades-old-puzzle-in-carbon-dioxide-to-fuel-conversion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research has revealed the fundamental mechanisms that limit the performance of copper catalysts\u2014critical components in artificial photosynthesis that transform carbon dioxide and water into valuable fuels and chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>In a study co-led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, researchers have used sophisticated X-ray techniques to directly observe how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/copper+nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">copper nanoparticles<\/a> change during the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/catalytic+process\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">catalytic process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By applying small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)\u2014a technique traditionally used to study soft materials like polymers\u2014to this catalyst system, the team gained unprecedented insights into catalyst degradation that has puzzled scientists for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has revealed the fundamental mechanisms that limit the performance of copper catalysts\u2014critical components in artificial photosynthesis that transform carbon dioxide and water into valuable fuels and chemicals. In a study co-led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, researchers have used sophisticated X-ray techniques to directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212725","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=212725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}