{"id":259066,"date":"2023-01-05T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=259066"},"modified":"2023-01-05T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:54:52","slug":"researchers-from-poland-and-germany-to-look-for-solutions-to-reduce-co2-concentrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/researchers-from-poland-and-germany-to-look-for-solutions-to-reduce-co2-concentrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers from Poland and Germany to look for solutions to reduce CO2 concentrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project &#8216;Magic-size ZnTe nanoclusters: a platform for high-efficiency chemical reduction&#8217; will be carried out at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the Krakow University of Technology (PK) under the direction of Professor Katarzyna Matras-Posto\u0142ek in partnership with the FH M\u00fcnster University of AppliedSciences. The project has been awarded funding of nearly PLN 2 million under the OPUS 22 + LAP\/Weave competition.<\/p>\n<p>The project, led by PK, addresses one of the greatest contemporary challenges in the fight to halt the climate crisis &#8211; reducing carbon dioxide emissions from energy processes.<\/p>\n<p>This necessitates the search for alternatives &#8211; to the natural process of photosynthesis &#8211; to reduce CO2 concentrations. One of these may be to find a catalyst that, using solar radiation, will reduce carbon dioxide to simple chemical compounds. &#8220;We will work on developing a substance that will accelerate the course of such a chemical reaction in our project&#8221;, says Dr Katarzyna Matras-Posto\u0142ek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project &#8216;Magic-size ZnTe nanoclusters: a platform for high-efficiency chemical reduction&#8217; will be carried out at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology of the Krakow University of Technology (PK) under the direction of Professor Katarzyna Matras-Posto\u0142ek in partnership with the FH M\u00fcnster University of AppliedSciences. The project has been awarded funding of nearly PLN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":258854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259077,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259066\/revisions\/259077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}