{"id":235861,"date":"2026-04-24T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/machine-learning-identifies-catalyst-sweet-spot-for-greener-urea-from-waste-gases"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:23:31","slug":"machine-learning-identifies-catalyst-sweet-spot-for-greener-urea-from-waste-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/machine-learning-identifies-catalyst-sweet-spot-for-greener-urea-from-waste-gases","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning identifies catalyst \u2018sweet spot\u2019 for greener urea from waste gases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-identifies-catalyst-sweet-spot-for-greener-urea-from-waste-gases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urea is an extremely important chemical, especially for fertilizers. But, making urea is energy intensive and relies heavily on fossil fuels. However, new findings from Griffith University and the Queensland University of Technology have highlighted new ways to produce urea electrochemically, using electricity and waste gases such as carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NO) instead.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201cMachine Learning-Assisted Design Framework of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-ambient-electrosynthesis-urea-nitrate-carbon.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Carbon Edge-Dominated<\/a> Dual-Atom Catalysts for Urea Electrosynthesis,\u201d has been <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.6c04319\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in ASC Nano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge is that when CO and NO react on a catalyst, they usually don\u2019t form urea,\u201d said co-lead author Professor Qin Li from Griffith University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urea is an extremely important chemical, especially for fertilizers. But, making urea is energy intensive and relies heavily on fossil fuels. However, new findings from Griffith University and the Queensland University of Technology have highlighted new ways to produce urea electrochemically, using electricity and waste gases such as carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NO) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235861","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}