Chemistry
A chain reaction that recycles co2 into fresh oxygen might offer more sustainable life assistance for astronauts on the moon or Mars– and as a reward, it likewise produces carbon nanotubes
By Jeremy Hsu
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Astronauts on the International Space Station require a sustainable supply of oxygen
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Objectives to the moon or Mars might get more sustainable life assistance from a chain reaction that turns the co2 breathed out by astronauts into carbon nanotubes and water– which is then transformed into fresh oxygen.
In preliminary experiments, the brand-new technique showed more effective than the existing system utilized to recycle CO2 into oxygen on the International Space Station (ISS).
Zhaosheng Li at Nanjing University in China and …
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