{"id":216094,"date":"2025-06-17T06:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/from-co%e2%82%82-to-methane-scientists-discover-how-nickel-nanoparticle-shape-and-size-control-conversion"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:13:54","slug":"from-co%e2%82%82-to-methane-scientists-discover-how-nickel-nanoparticle-shape-and-size-control-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/from-co%e2%82%82-to-methane-scientists-discover-how-nickel-nanoparticle-shape-and-size-control-conversion","title":{"rendered":"From CO\u2082 to methane: Scientists discover how nickel nanoparticle shape and size control conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-coe28282-to-methane-scientists-discover-how-nickel-nanoparticle-shape-and-size-control-conversion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every day, tons of CO\u2082 are released into the atmosphere, but what if we could transform it using clean energy? This is the question explored in a recent Politecnico di Milano study, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acscatal.4c08084\" target=\"_blank\">featured<\/a> on the cover of the journal <i>ACS Catalysis<\/i>. The research focuses on a process that transforms carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane using carefully engineered nickel nanoparticles.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled \u201cDeciphering Size and Shape Effects on the Structure Sensitivity of the CO\u2082 Methanation Reaction on Nickel,\u201d the study by Gabriele Span\u00f2, Matteo Ferri, Raffaele Cheula, Matteo Monai, Bert M. Weckhuysen and Matteo Maestri investigates how the size and shape of nickel nanoparticles influence the rate at which <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide<\/a> is converted into methane.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Laboratory of Catalysis and Catalytic Processes (LCCP) at Politecnico di Milano\u2019s Department of Energy are tackling a key climate challenge: reusing CO\u2082 to produce sustainable fuels. The LCCP is an internationally recognized leader in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heterogeneous+catalysis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heterogeneous catalysis<\/a>, driving forward practical solutions for cleaner energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, tons of CO\u2082 are released into the atmosphere, but what if we could transform it using clean energy? This is the question explored in a recent Politecnico di Milano study, which was featured on the cover of the journal ACS Catalysis. The research focuses on a process that transforms carbon dioxide and hydrogen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216094","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}