{"id":85173,"date":"2018-11-27T01:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/light-activated-single-ion-catalyst-breaks-down-carbon-dioxide"},"modified":"2018-11-27T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:23:10","slug":"light-activated-single-ion-catalyst-breaks-down-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/light-activated-single-ion-catalyst-breaks-down-carbon-dioxide","title":{"rendered":"Light-activated, single-ion catalyst breaks down carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-activated-single-ion-catalyst-breaks-down-carbon-dioxide2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has discovered a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) into \u201cbuilding block\u201d molecules that could be used for creating useful chemicals. The discovery opens the possibility of using sunlight to turn a greenhouse gas into hydrocarbon fuels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-light-activated-single-ion-catalyst-carbon-dioxide.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-light-activated-single-ion...oxide.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has discovered a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into \u201cbuilding block\u201d molecules that could be used for creating useful chemicals. The discovery opens the possibility of using sunlight to turn a greenhouse gas into hydrocarbon fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173","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=85173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}