Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid ...

Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...

Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, but this electrified reaction tackles a problem that has frustrated chemists ...

A team at Northwestern University has figured out how to turn methane into methanol in a single step, at room temperature, ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory developed a highly selective catalyst that converts methane to methanol in a single, low-temperature step, potentially simplifying industrial processes.

A team led by Professor Osami Shoji at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a technology to convert methane, the principal component of natural gas, into methanol at room temperature in water.

High-resolution electron microscopy images of the catalyst captured at the CFN. Frame A shows the catalyst with a scale bar representing 20 nanometers (nm) after three consecutive reaction cycles; B ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ...

Methanol production from methane employing methanotrophs represents a rapidly evolving intersection of microbiology, chemical engineering and renewable energy research. This bioconversion approach ...

New technology converts a component of natural gas, methane (left), to methanol (right), using the P450BM3 enzyme (middle, gray) with a decoy molecule (middle, colored). This method can be a cheap and ...