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| Artist's Rendering of 'Synthetic Trees' |
This is an outline of the technology from Columbia's Earth Institute: University Joins 'Synthetic Tree' Venture
Persons of particular interest include:
Lackner and his team are developing a device they have dubbed an air extractor, modeled after one of the most abundant but most complicated devices in nature: the leaf of a tree. Leaves are significant absorbers of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but planting enough of trees to absorb the current overabundance of carbon dioxide in the world would leave no fertile land left for other uses.
Professor Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park
The specific on-going research efforts of Park's group include the fundamental studies of novel organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for application in CO2 capture and storage, tailored synthesis of engineered carbon-neutral filler materials and production of hydrogen and liquid fuels from biomass and solid municipal wastes with integrated carbon sequestration.
The specific on-going research efforts of Park's group include the fundamental studies of novel organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for application in CO2 capture and storage, tailored synthesis of engineered carbon-neutral filler materials and production of hydrogen and liquid fuels from biomass and solid municipal wastes with integrated carbon sequestration.
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