Conjuring batteries out of thin air - Materials Today

Conjuring batteries out of thin air - Materials Today
An interdisciplinary team of scientists has worked out a way to make electric vehicles not just carbon neutral, but carbon negative, capable of actually reducing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide as they operate. They have done this by demonstrating how the graphite electrodes used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric automobiles can be replaced with carbon material recovered from the atmosphere. The recipe for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into batteries is described in a paper in ACS Central Science.