Turning Natural Gas into Carbon Nanotubes Cuts Energy Use, Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Matteo Pasquali, a pioneer in the development of carbon nanotube fibers, has won a federal grant to convert natural gas into hydrogen and carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metal in products.  

He said the project will lay a foundation to understand whether and how the conversion of natural gas into carbon nanotube materials can be made into a large-volume, economical process that could displace metals and other energy-inefficient materials at the level of hundreds of megatons per year.  Such displacement would yield massive reductions in carbon dioxide emissions while also generating economic growth and adding value to our natural gas resources.

“It is critical that we compress as much as possible the time scale for the development and deployment of this technology,” he said. “The climate is already changing and we must act with urgency.”

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