Magazine 4/2009
A Powder to Prevent Energy Waste
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It might no longer be necessary to burn off natural gas. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have developed a catalyst that simply and efficiently converts methane, the main constituent of natural gas, into methanol.