Cheapest, easiest-to-make carbon capture material ever created

Chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, say they have created a simple and very inexpensive method.

trapping carbon dioxide using a polymer called melamine. It is much cheaper than metal-organic frameworks and is capable of capturing carbon emissions from pipes - smoke or exhaust.

The complex shapes of these crystal structures—metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)—provide the largest surface area of ​​any known material. They are able to capture CO₂ molecules.

The new material quickly and selectively absorbs carbon dioxide, and then releases it for sequestration with slight heating.
Photo: UC Berkeley

In a new experiment, scientists from Berkeleyrapidly adsorbed carbon using a melamine molecular nanogrid at a temperature of about 40 °C. It turned out that when the temperature rises to 60 ° C, it releases CO₂ for sequestration.

Melamine itself costs about $40 per ton.It is a very common material used in the creation of thermoset plastics and laminates. The research team combined melamine with formaldehyde and cyanuric acid. The scientists then used condensation polymerization and sonicated the material to create stabilized nanoporous melamine networks. Scientists are confident that they have created the cheapest and easiest-to-manufacture material for carbon capture.

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