Today, most ethylene is made through steam cracking, a process that uses high-temperature steam to break down crude oil into ...

Ethylene—the chemical used to create much of the world’s plastics—has a carbon problem that Professor Ted Sargent is working to solve.

Workflow of syngas biomethanation under increasing hydrogen ratios. This schematic illustrates the experimental workflow used to evaluate how hydrogen enrichment affects syngas-converting microbiomes.

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a solid-state electrolyzer that converts carbon monoxide from plastic waste gas into ethylene, one of the most widely used chemical building blocks on ...