Today, the ‘Sabatier method’ remains the most popular approach for methane synthesis, but it is problematic for several reasons, explains Yakabe. For a start, the reaction isn’t very efficient.

In the reaction, the bonds in the methane and oxygen molecule come apart, the atoms rearrange and then re-bond to form water and carbon dioxide. The little number written at the lower right after an ...

A chain of chemical reactions being developed by researchers ... which converts CO 2 and methane into synthesis gas.” Synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is already an ...

In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant ...

In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in ...

Figure 1. Mechanism for photocatalytic conversion of methane to ethanol. In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an ...