Nature Reviews Chemistry, volume 8, issue 5, pages 376-400

A US perspective on closing the carbon cycle to defossilize difficult-to-electrify segments of our economy

Wendy Shaw ¹

Michelle K. Kidder ²

Simon R. Bare ³

Massimiliano Delferro ⁴

J.R Morris ⁵

Francesca M. Toma ^{6, 7}

Sanjaya D Senanayake ⁸

T Autrey ¹

Elizabeth J. Biddinger ⁹

Shannon W. Boettcher ^{6, 10}

Mark E. Bowden ¹

Phillip F Britt ²

Robert C. Brown ¹¹

Ross Bullock ¹

Jingguang G. Chen ^{8, 12}

Claus Daniel ⁴

Peter K. Dorhout ¹³

Rebecca A Efroymson ²

Kelly Gaffney ³

Laura Gagliardi ¹⁴

Aaron S. Harper ¹

David J. Heldebrant ^{1, 15}

Oana Luca ¹⁶

Maxim Lyubovsky ¹⁷

Jonathan L. Male ^{1, 18}

Daniel J Miller ⁶

Tanya Prozorov ⁵

ROBERT RALLO ¹

Rachita Rana ¹⁹

R. L. Rioux ²⁰

Aaron D. Sadow ^{5, 21}

Joshua Schaidle ²²

Lisa A Schulte ²³

William Abraham Tarpeh ²⁴

Dionisios G Vlachos ²⁵

Bryan D. Vogt ²⁰

R. S. Weber ¹

Jenny Y. Yang ²⁶

Elke Arenholz ¹

Brett Helms ⁶

Wenyu Huang ^{5, 21}

James L Jordahl ²³

Canan Karakaya ²

Kourosh Kian ^{27, 28}

Jotheeswari Kothandaraman ¹

Johannes Lercher ^{1, 29}

Ping Liu ⁸

Deepika Malhotra ¹

Karl T Mueller ¹

Casey P Obrien ³⁰

Robert M Palomino ³¹

Qi Long ⁵

José Antonio Rodriguez ⁸

Roger Rousseau ²

Jake C Russell ³²

Michele L Sarazen ³³

David S. Sholl ²

Emily A. Smith ^{5, 21}

Michaela Burke Stevens ³

Yogesh Surendranath ³⁴

Christopher J Tassone ³

Ba Tran ¹

William Tumas ²²

Krista S. Walton ³⁵

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA |

Oak ridge national laboratory, Oak ridge, USA |

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, USA |

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Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA |

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Ames National Laboratory, Ames, USA |

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Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, Berkeley, USA |

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Institute of Functional Materials for Sustainability, Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon, Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany |

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Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA |

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Department of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, USA |

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Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA |

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa state university, Ames, USA |

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Vice President for Research, Iowa State University, Ames, USA |

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Department of Chemistry, the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA |

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Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, USA |

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Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA |

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Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington DC, USA |

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Biological Systems Engineering Department, Washington State University, Pullman, USA |

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Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA |

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Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA |

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Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, USA |

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, USA |

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Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, USA |

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA |

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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, USA |

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Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA |

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Independent consultant, Washington DC, USA |

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Department of Chemical engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, USA |

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Department of chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany |

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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA |

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BASF Corporation, Iselin, USA |

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Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, Department of Energy, Washington DC, USA |

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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, USA |

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Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |

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School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2024-05-01

Springer Nature

Journal: Nature Reviews Chemistry

scimago Q1

SJR: 11.603

CiteScore: 52.8

Impact factor: 38.1

ISSN: 23973358

DOI: 10.1038/s41570-024-00587-1

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Abstract

Electrification to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions is essential to mitigate climate change. However, a substantial portion of our manufacturing and transportation infrastructure will be difficult to electrify and/or will continue to use carbon as a key component, including areas in aviation, heavy-duty and marine transportation, and the chemical industry. In this Roadmap, we explore how multidisciplinary approaches will enable us to close the carbon cycle and create a circular economy by defossilizing these difficult-to-electrify areas and those that will continue to need carbon. We discuss two approaches for this: developing carbon alternatives and improving our ability to reuse carbon, enabled by separations. Furthermore, we posit that co-design and use-driven fundamental science are essential to reach aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets. To achieve net-zero carbon emissions, we must close the carbon cycle for industries that are difficult to electrify. Developing the needed science to provide carbon alternatives and non-fossil carbon will accelerate advances towards defossilization.

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