{"id":115934,"date":"2022-09-23T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=115934"},"modified":"2022-09-20T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:03:26","slug":"813k-for-breathtaking-co2-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/813k-for-breathtaking-co2-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$813k for \u2018breathtaking\u2019 CO2 research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Dr Ge received more than $813,000 to develop electrochemical conversion technologies to convert CO2<\/sub> into globally-needed chemicals and fuels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The University of Southern Queensland\u2019s Dr Lei Ge has been awarded government funding to explore carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) as a viable renewable carbon resource.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australian Research Council (ARC) this week welcomed the decision by Minister for Education Jason Clare MP to provide $94 million in funding for new Future Fellows in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scheme awards outstanding mid-career researchers with funding support for the next four years to undertake innovative research in exciting areas with potential national benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nano materials researcher Dr Ge, based at the University of Southern Queensland\u2019s Centre for Future Materials, received more than $813,000 to develop electrochemical conversion technologies to convert CO2<\/sub> into globally-needed chemicals and fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCO2<\/sub> is commonly known as a greenhouse gas that causes problems for the environment and substantially contributes to climate change,\u201d Dr Ge<\/strong> said.<\/p>

\u201cHowever, it actually can be an important storage intermediate and feedstock for sustainable chemical manufacturing, producing a variety of fuel and chemicals ranging from hydrocarbons to oxygenates.<\/p>

\u201cThis research aims to establish a fundamental understanding of critical but poorly known mass transfer and reaction mechanisms in the CO2<\/sub> electrochemical reduction reaction, and use this to design new gas diffusion electrodes (GDE).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

GDEs are electrical conductors with a solid, liquid and gaseous interface alongside a CO2<\/sub> active catalyst layer, used in technologies such as fuel cells to create an electrochemical reaction between chemical elements to create energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new funding will allow Dr Ge, who is part of a research team headed by Professor John Bell and Professor Hao Wang, to build on his existing research in which he has developed a series of highly-active electrocatalysts and GDEs via membrane microstructure design and catalyst engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt targets bottleneck issues in managing the gas-liquid-solid reaction sites and improving the conversion efficiency of reactor, through the synthesis of advanced electrode materials, understanding of mass transfer and the engineering design of an electrochemical reactor,\u201d he said.<\/p>

\u201cThe expected outcomes will promote carbon neutral goals, bridge the renewable energy storage and sustainable chemical manufacturing gap, thus addressing key challenges faced by Australia and the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Centre for Future Materials is part of the University\u2019s Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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