Carbon dioxide sponge is carbon-neutral and edible | R&D Mag

By Megan Fellman - A year ago Northwestern University chemists published their recipe for a new class of nanostructures made of sugar, salt and alcohol. Now, the same team has discovered the edible compounds can efficiently detect, capture and store carbon dioxide. And the compounds themselves are carbon-neutral.

“We are able to take molecules that are themselves sourced from...