Capturing #CO2 with electricity: A microbial enzyme inspires electrochemistry!

Scientists from our Microbial Metabolism Group & the Univ. of Radboud and Geneva isolated a microbial enzyme & branched it on an electrode to efficiently and unidirectionally convert CO2 to formate.
Out now @ "Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed."

Read more here:
https://mpi-bremen.de/en/Capturing-CO2-with-electricity-A-microbial-enzyme-inspires-electrochemistry.html

Original publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202311981

#climatechange #microbiology #enzyme #methanogen #formate #carboncapture #coolscience