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

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

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

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

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

Researchers from National Taiwan University and Chulalongkorn University developed a copper-based catalyst system that ...

In an effort to develop catalysts from abundant and inexpensive elements, researchers from Kyushu University have found that ...

Publishing in Communications Chemistry, researchers from Kyushu University have discovered a simple method of generating ...

Science often looks like white coats and high-tech, expensive labs, but sometimes, the future ...

Chemists in the United States have discovered a new way to turn natural gas ...

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

A US-sanctioned Chinese tanker, Rich Starry, crosses the Strait of Hormuz, becoming the first to exit the Gulf since the US ...