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December 08, 2015

Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbon
New York NY (SPX) Dec 08, 2015
As talks of global warming are once again making Trapping climate pollutant methane gas in porous carbons, scientists have renewed their efforts to understand how to best limit its effects. For example, sequestrating short-lived climate pollutants, such as methane and black carbon, yields much faster reductions in global warming compared to reductions in CO2. To do so, it is essential to have a better grasp of the nature of physico-chemical properties of gases interacting with porous carbon. ... read more

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