Speaker:
Title:
Engineering Biological Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Reuse
Abstract:
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions rates continue to rise with humanity’s ongoing dependence on fossil fuel-derived products. Renewable carbon feedstocks, created by pulling CO2 from the
atmosphere and electrochemically reducing it, provide an option to produce carbon-neutral fuel and plastic precursors, if the right membranes and catalysts can be developed. In this talk, I will discuss our efforts to improve CO2-capturing and CO2-catalyzing materials through biological templating, thereby imparting nanoscale structure and enhancing performance.