Carbon capture, utilization, and storage: A comprehensive review of CCUS-EOR
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Discover how CCUS-EOR technology can enhance oil recovery while reducing carbon emissions. A new study in Engineering explores the key factors influencing the efficiency of CO2-EOR and geological storage, proposing a two-stage process to optimize dual objectives. Learn about the latest findings on reservoir properties, fluid characteristics, and operational parameters that impact CCUS-EOR performance.
Discover how a novel thickened supercritical CO2 flooding method can enhance oil recovery in high-water-cut mature reservoirs. This study explores the potential of a specially designed copolymer thickener to significantly boost crude oil extraction, offering a new approach to improve efficiency in challenging reservoir conditions.
A new Europe-focused study reveals that polyethylene (PE), the most widely used packaging material in Europe, has lower life cycle global warming potential (GWP) - often used to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions - than conventional packaging alternatives, such as paper, metals, and glass, in most applications. The finding arrives as the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) came into force in February 2025, offering policymakers valuable insights for work on delegated acts that could directly or indirectly lead to substitution of plastic packaging by alternatives.
The research team led by Professor Jun He from Wuhan University has developed a universal metal-assisted epitaxy strategy to produce wafer-scale monolayer MoS2 films with specific substitutional doping on commercial insulator substrates of c-plane sapphire. By precisely introducing dopants, the carrier types of monolayer MoS2 films can be effectively modulated, evidenced by the theory calculations and multi-scale characterizations. Consequently, transistors with high mobility (≈ 71.2 cm2V−1s−1) and on/off current ratio (≈ 108), as well as low-power inverters, are obtained. Finally, we developed a standard gate-last process for integrating hundreds of thousands of gate level modulation-doped MoS2 array devices on a 4-inch wafer, and demonstrated their applications in digital logic circuits such as data selector, 3-to-8 decoder and full adder. These results advance the development of controllable synthesis technology for wafer-scale 2D modulation-doped semiconductors and pave the way for their practical applications in integrated electronics.
Scientists have developed a nanosecond-scale electrical detection technique to film chemical reactions at the single-molecule level. This breakthrough directly observed hidden intermediates in a key organic reaction (Morita-Baylis-Hillman), resolved long-standing debates about proton transfer mechanisms, and revealed unexpected catalytic oscillations. By applying electric fields, the reaction efficiency surged 5000-fold, enabling scalable green synthesis on a chip.