Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...

A small glass tube, a copper coating, and a burst of plasma no hotter than room temperature. That is the setup behind a new ...

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid ...

A team at Northwestern University has figured out how to turn methane into methanol in a single step, at room temperature, ...

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...

Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.

By harnessing tiny bursts of plasma — or mini “lightning bolts” — in glass tubes submerged in water, the researchers ...

Lightning in a bottle, in a literal sense, may be the key to new, clean energy by reducing carbon emissions in methanol ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory developed a highly selective catalyst that converts methane to methanol in a single, low-temperature step, potentially simplifying industrial processes.

Methanol production from methane employing methanotrophs represents a rapidly evolving intersection of microbiology, chemical engineering and renewable energy research. This bioconversion approach ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ...

The optimal design of a novel zeolite catalyst enables tandem reaction that turns greenhouse gases into value-added chemicals, report scientists. By tuning the separation between different active ...