{"id":85051,"date":"2018-11-23T19:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/researchers-just-found-a-way-to-turn-co2-into-plastic-with-unprecedented-efficiency"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:22:52","slug":"researchers-just-found-a-way-to-turn-co2-into-plastic-with-unprecedented-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/researchers-just-found-a-way-to-turn-co2-into-plastic-with-unprecedented-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Just Found a Way to Turn CO2 Into Plastic With Unprecedented Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-just-found-a-way-to-turn-co2-into-plastic-with-unprecedented-efficiency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide\u2014the main cause of global warming\u2014into plastics, fabrics, resins, and other products.<\/p>\n<p>The electrocatalysts are the first materials, aside from enzymes, that can turn carbon dioxide and water into carbon building blocks containing one, two, three, or four carbon atoms with more than 99 percent efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the products\u2014methylglyoxal (C3) and 2,3-furandiol (C4)\u2014can be used as precursors for plastics, adhesives, and pharmaceuticals. Toxic formaldehyde could be replaced by methylglyoxal, which is safer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-figured-out-a-way-to-convert-carbon-dioxide-into-plastic\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-figured-out-a-w...to-plastic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide\u2014the main cause of global warming\u2014into plastics, fabrics, resins, and other products. The electrocatalysts are the first materials, aside from enzymes, that can turn carbon dioxide and water into carbon building blocks containing one, two, three, or four carbon atoms with more than 99 percent efficiency. Two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85051","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}