Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a catalyst material known as cobalt phthalocyanine that converts carbon dioxide—a significant driver of climate change—into renewable fuels ...

Among the tested materials, cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) demonstrated the best efficiency in converting CO2 to CO. “This graffiti-like method of simply spraying the catalyst on a surface reduces ...

Previous attempts by the same team to manufacture this valuable liquid fuel from carbon dioxide have used a combination of cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) molecules and electricity, but this method ...

Each of the cobalt-phthalocyanine molecules used in the experiment contains two frontier electrons. "Using very simple molecular building blocks, we are able to engineer and probe this complex ...

To test this, Sato and his team focused on the superstructure of cobalt phthalocyanines, an organometallic molecule frequently used in such electronic devices as light-emitting diodes. Critically ...