Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, but this electrified reaction tackles a problem that has frustrated chemists ...

Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...

Six Northwestern researchers published a paper April 15 detailing how plasma can be used in a reaction to convert methane to ...

Methanol has been made in a single step by zapping methane with pulses of electricity. The plasma-based reaction, which also ...

People often muse over catching lightning in a bottle, and what an amazing feat it would be. But have you ever wondered what comes next if we do it? Well, researchers at Northwestern University have ...

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

Rising global emissions of hydrogen over the past three decades have added to the planet's warming temperatures and amplified the impact of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, according ...