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Upcycled Nitrile Rubber Carbon Capture
Coverage from ScienceBlog.com, American Chemical Society, and others

Researchers are turning discarded nitrile rubber, including gloves and shoe soles, into amine-rich materials that can capture carbon dioxide at high temperatures, while scale-up, catalyst cost, and stability remain open questions.
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The story is largely unchanged, but the current version more explicitly broadens the feedstock to shoe soles and clarifies that the main unresolved issues are cost and stability at scale. It also tightens the framing around flue-gas-relevant high-temperature capture rather than general CO2 adsorption.
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