"We took a powder of this material, put it in a tube, and we passed Berkeley air just outdoor air into the material to see how it would perform, and it was beautiful. It cleaned the air entirely of CO2. Everything," says Omar Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, speaking to UC Berkeley News. Yaghi authored a paper, along with graduate student Zihui Zhou, about their finding that was published late last month in the journal.
"I am excited about it because there's nothing like it out there in terms of performance," Yaghi adds. "It breaks new ground in our efforts to address the climate problem." This sentiment emphasizes the uniqueness and potential impact of their discovery in the realm of carbon capture.
"Currently, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is more than 420 ppm (parts per million), but that will increase to maybe 500 or 550 before we fully develop..." This highlights the urgency of developing effective carbon capture technologies like COF-999.
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