In recent years, growing awareness of the cost of greenhouse gas emissions to our global climate, principally from CO2 and methane, has led to international strategies to reduce these emissions. Even still, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is now 33% higher than preindustrial levels. Currently, the most promising avenue for reduction of industrial CO2 emissions is through amine scrubbing. However, scientific interest in amine scrubbing has chiefly focused on bulk phase, microscopic properties, ignoring the molecular picture. Ongoing studies in our laboratory are examining the adsorption of CO2 gas to liquid amine interfaces, using a variety of surface specific techniques including vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy, surface tension, and computational simulations. This presentation will describe the molecular level details of an important class of carbon-capture reactions.

Mean grab: The capture of CO<sub>?2</sub>? at amine coated water surfaces as studied by vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy

247th National Meeting (2014)

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Mean grab: The capture of CO?2? at amine coated water surfaces as studied by vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy

Mean grab: The capture of CO_?2? at amine coated water surfaces as studied by vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy