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New approaches to high-resolution geological simulations

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Geological models using Mishra and Haese’s workflow have improved predictions of fluid flow and fluid–rock reactions.

Geological and reservoir modelling are critical for geological exploration, resource extraction, and geoengineering projects. Current workflows and datasets record geological variations on metre or decimetre scales. However, many relevant geological structures exist at sub-centimetre scales. Dr Achyut Mishra and Professor Ralf Haese at the University of Melbourne, Australia – part of the international research consortium GeoCquest – have developed a […]

Plastic Free July^® 2022

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Plastic pollutes our land, our airways, and our oceans. This month is Plastic Free July® 2022 – a global initiative to encourage everyone to eliminate plastic use for one month. The event, run by Plastic Free Foundation, invites us all to be part of the solution. Each year, over 100 million people in 190 countries take part. We’ve picked the […]

Nanotechnology and metal-organic frameworks for carbon capture

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Dr Cheung has examined how nanomaterials such as ZIFs can be used in selective carbon capture as a result of their porosity

Greenhouse gases pose a major environmental threat that needs to be tackled. Nanotechnology offers great potential, with novel nanomaterials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) being strong candidates for the adsorption of greenhouse gases. Dr Ocean Cheung, assistant professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, looked into a MOF sub-category, zeolite imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), and examined how mixing raw materials for ZIF […]

Understanding and responding to climate change: our favourite climate research from 2021

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An aerial view of sea ice in the Arctic, showing white ice at the top and a blue green sea. The article summarises six key articles relating to climate change research published by Research Outreach in 2021

Climate change solutions must reach across education, agriculture, energy production, politics and policymaking, manufacturing, travel, transport – almost every aspect of life. The six articles highlighted below demonstrate the breadth of research being undertaken by scientists globally as they work to understand the complex impacts of climate change, design new technologies and processes for a greener future, assess the financial […]

Careful catalysis converts CO₂ emissions into useful chemicals

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Careful catalysis converts CO2 emissions into useful chemicals

‘Reduce carbon dioxide emissions by reducing carbon dioxide’: at first glance, this doesn’t seem particularly insightful, but it’s the basis of research recently produced by Samuel Perry at the University of Southampton. Using the carbon dioxide reduction reaction, an electrochemical process with multiple possible products, Perry and his collaborators are working towards an electrode design that can selectively convert CO2 […]