Membrane technologies for carbon capture can offer economic and environmental advantages over conventional amine-based absorption, but can suffer from limited gas flux and selectivity to CO2. Now, a membrane based on enzymes embedded in hydrophilic pores is shown to exhibit combined flux and selectivity that challenges the state of the art.
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Kentish, S. Embedded enzymes catalyse capture. Nat Energy 3, 359–360 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0146-8
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