{"id":240751,"date":"2026-07-13T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/battery-like-device-pulls-co%e2%82%82-from-air-using-electricity-and-saltwater-chemistry"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:05:52","slug":"battery-like-device-pulls-co%e2%82%82-from-air-using-electricity-and-saltwater-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/battery-like-device-pulls-co%e2%82%82-from-air-using-electricity-and-saltwater-chemistry","title":{"rendered":"Battery-like device pulls CO\u2082 from air using electricity and saltwater chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/battery-like-device-pulls-coe28282-from-air-using-electricity-and-saltwater-chemistry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers have developed a new way to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere using a process similar to charging and discharging a battery\u2014an advance that could help address the planet\u2019s excess CO<sub>2<\/sub> problem.<\/p>\n<p>A new collaborative study between scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Toyota focuses on direct air capture, a technology designed to reduce new emissions and remove CO<sub>2<\/sub> that has already accumulated in the atmosphere. Instead of using heat to absorb and release CO<sub>2<\/sub>, as many carbon capture methods do, the new method uses electricity and water-based chemistry within an electrochemical device.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the study by <a href=\"https:\/\/mechse.illinois.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">mechanical engineering and science<\/a> professor Kyle Smith, Illinois graduate students Paul Rozzi and JeongA Lee, and Chip Roberts and Tim Arthur from the Toyota Research Institute of North America are published in the journal <i>Environmental Science &amp; Technology.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have developed a new way to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere using a process similar to charging and discharging a battery\u2014an advance that could help address the planet\u2019s excess CO2 problem. A new collaborative study between scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Toyota focuses on direct air capture, a technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240751","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=240751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}