Turning carbon dioxide into usable fuel with nothing more than sunlight has long sounded like science fiction. A wave of recent breakthroughs now suggests it is edging into engineering reality, with ...

Japan's researchers built a self-regulating artificial photosynthesis device that turns water and CO2 into liquid fuel as sunlight shifts throughout the day.

A new catalyst design could significantly improve the conversion of CO2 into methanol, an important fuel and chemical feedstock. Researchers separated key reaction steps across different catalyst ...

A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients. The artificial “leaf,” like ...

Researchers have created a cutting-edge catalyst that turns CO2 into methanol more efficiently than ever before. Instead of using clumps of metal atoms, they engineered a system where each single ...