Symposium EE10-Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture

The combustion of fossil fuels for energy generation and transportation has led to steadily rising CO₂ levels in the atmosphere and consequently, global climate change. This concern has become a major driving force for a larger share of renewable energy in power generation and for electrifying transportation. However, post-combustion carbon capture remains a critical bridging technology to reduce CO₂ emissions because of the long lifetime of coal- and natural gas-fired power plants as well as the current, relatively modest use of renewable energy sources. In addition, pre-combustion carbon capture will continue to be an important part of the clean-coal technology. Removal of CO₂ from natural gas is an increasingly important component of energy generation, especially given the current shale-gas boom. Novel materials hold the key to energy-efficient carbon capture, going beyond traditional materials such as amines. Metal-organic frameworks and covalent-organic frameworks are promising large-capacity adsorbents for CO₂ while novel polymers such as intrinsically porous polymers can be used in membrane architecture for high-flux CO₂ separation. Ionic liquids are novel solvents with tunable CO₂ reactivity and negligible vapor pressure that can be used as either a chemical absorbent or a supported liquid membrane. It is the expectation that the composite of these materials either as sorbent or in membrane setup will also bring new opportunities in energy-efficient carbon capture.

This symposium is aimed at bringing together researchers in materials synthesis, gas separations, membrane fabrication, and CO₂ removal to highlight recent progresses and discuss challenges and opportunities in the materials aspect of carbon capture.

• Mixed matrix materials for gas separations
• New materials and process concepts for carbon capture
• Metal-organic frameworks and covalent-organic frameworks for carbon capture
• Novel polymer membranes for high-flux CO₂ separation
• Synthesis and applications of novel amines, solvents and ionic liquids in carbon capture
• Zeolites, mesoporous silica materials, and porous carbons for CO₂ removal

• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_0 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_1 (University of Minnesota, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_2 (University of California, Riverside, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_3 (Air Liquide, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_4 (Dalian University, China)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_5 (Columbia University, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_6 (Jilin University, China)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_7 (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_8 (DuPont, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_9 (Northwestern University, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_10 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• EE10_Recent Advances in Materials for Carbon Capture_11 (Texas A&M University, USA)