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Electrochemical Carbon Capture
Coverage from Nature Chemical Engineering, Tech Xplore, and others
Electrochemical carbon capture replaces or reduces the heat and vacuum steps used in conventional systems by using electricity, redox-active materials, pH swings, and tailored reactor architectures.
Research spans direct air, industrial exhaust, and ocean capture, including membraneless cells and integrated electrodes that convert captured CO2 into formic acid or carbon monoxide. Key engineering questions involve catalyst selectivity, ion transport, membrane stability, energy use, continuous operation, and resistance to degradation. The approach connects carbon removal and industrial decarbonization with carbon utilization, while remaining dependent on advances in materials, device design, and scale-up.
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Johns Hopkins University researchers developed a membraneless electrochemical carbon capture system in Baltimore that operated for 75 cycles and showed a modeled 28.9% cost reduction.
9/8/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
University of Michigan Engineering researchers developed an electrochemical process for removing dissolved ocean carbon dioxide, with findings published in Environmental Science & Technology.
8/31/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Toyota reported an electrochemical direct air capture method that uses electricity and pH cycling to remove atmospheric CO2.
7/12/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers optimize electrochemical hydrogen looping for direct ocean CO2 capture in synthetic seawater, lowering energy use at maintained capture efficiencies above 75%.
6/23/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Electrochemical hydrogen looping reactor engineering using synthetic seawater reduced direct ocean CO2 capture energy use to 117.3 kJ mol-1 CO2 at 20 mA cm-2 while keeping capture efficiency above 75%.
6/23/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers model a RADW-ABA integrated system for amine post-combustion CO2 capture that reduces regeneration energy and improves SO2 tolerance using rotary adsorption under variable flue gas.
6/20/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
MIT researchers, with support from the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, study N-heterocyclic imine sorbents for electrochemically mediated CO2 capture as a scalable alternative to amine scrubbing.
6/4/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
MIT researchers in a Nature Energy study explore EMCC using tunable N-heterocyclic imine sorbents to reduce energy intensity of CO2 capture.
6/4/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
A computational peptide-design framework benchmarks DFT and ranks 8,000 tripeptides using TriScore to identify CO2-binding candidates for solvent-based direct air capture.
5/19/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers report guanidinium-grafted PVDF hollow fibers that capture bicarbonate from water and regenerate with mild pH swings across multiple cycles, including saline conditions.
3/29/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers developed guanidinium-functionalized PVDF hollow fibers that capture bicarbonate from saline water and regenerate using mild acidic pH swings.
3/29/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers are evaluating integrated electrochemical carbon capture and conversion to reduce energy use in carbon utilization through coupled capture and electrolysis systems.
8/31/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
MIT researchers report N-heterocyclic imine sorbents for electrochemically mediated CO2 capture in Nature Energy, targeting electrified, more scalable CO2 separation.
6/4/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
A University of Colorado Boulder team developed an instrument and Raman mapping approach to observe alkaline direct air capture kinetics at the CO2 KOH interface.
5/19/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
University of Chicago and Argonne reported a DMSO and zinc reactive CO2 capture system with improved efficiency and cost signals versus water-based methods.
4/17/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Korean researchers reported in 2026 that a gas permeable electrode captures CO2 from air and converts it to formic acid.
1/29/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
University of Michigan Engineering researchers tested an electrochemical process in simulated ocean water that removes dissolved carbon dioxide while reducing electrode fouling.
8/31/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
University of Michigan Engineering researchers developed a self-cleaning electrochemical seawater carbon capture process in a study published in Environmental Science & Technology.
8/31/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Interesting
Southwest Research Institute is evaluating deep eutectic solvent systems in 2025 to capture and convert industrial carbon under realistic impurity conditions.
9/14/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Nanjing University is developing a renewable-powered BioChargeDAC direct air capture pilot with Tencent-supported partners in Kenya.
9/1/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Nitto tests electric-powered CO2-selective membrane modules in Shiga, Japan, targeting post-combustion CCS for industrial boilers.
5/20/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
A guanidinium-functionalized PVDF hollow fiber sorbent removes dissolved bicarbonate from aqueous feeds and regenerates with mild HCl pH cycling over multiple cycles.
3/29/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Researchers developed regenerable PVDF hollow fiber sorbents with guanidinium binding to capture bicarbonate from aqueous solutions, reaching 98% removal after four cycles and holding stability in saline mixtures.
3/29/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Johns Hopkins researchers recently demonstrated electrochemical CO2 removal from wastewater in four U.S. treatment plants to reduce emissions.
7/23/2025 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
University of Colorado Boulder researchers reported real time visualization of potassium hydroxide DAC liquid-interface reactions using a flow cell and confocal Raman spectroscopy.
5/24/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
ScienceDaily reports scientists developed an integrated CO2 capture and conversion electrode that works with ambient and exhaust gas to produce formic acid.
1/29/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
On May 9, Cornell artist-researcher Claire Choi presented CO2 from the SCA-2 satellite over the Indian Ocean, drawing on Tobias Hanrath's carbon dioxide electrolysis research.
7/30/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Giulia Gianola presented an MEA-based electrochemical reactor for continuous captured CO2-to-CO conversion during a London presentation at The Foundry.
6/15/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Phillip Milner, Brett Fors, and Hector Abruna propose electricity-regenerated adsorbents for point-source and atmospheric carbon dioxide capture through a seed-funded chemistry research project.
5/22/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General
Additional
Researchers evaluate 1,4-dioxane in hydrate-based carbon capture from CO2/H2 fuel gas mixtures, reporting shifted hydrate stability and faster CO2 capture kinetics.
7/20/2026 • Clean Energy & Emissions • General