Green Solvents and Materials for CO₂ Capture

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this Special Issue, which aims at collecting works showing strategies of scientists working on green solvents and materials for CO₂ capture. We welcome original research articles, review articles and case studies exploring novel strategies. The use of fossil fuels as the main primary energy source inevitably leads to an increasing amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The increasing concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere is indicated as the main cause of the greenhouse effect on the planet, resulting in climate change. These reasons have motivated the growing efforts in recent years, both by the technical-scientific and policy communities, to control the accumulation of atmospheric CO₂, and considerable progress has already been made in CO₂ capture, storage and utilization, as evidenced by the new materials proposed since the beginning of the millennium in the literature. In general, the synthesis of most CO₂ sorbents may require multiple steps for their preparation or activation, which goes against the principles of green chemistry (GCP). A global effort is therefore needed to develop new green solvents and materials for CO₂ capture, while improving their capture efficiency in a sustainable way using different approaches and technologies. To address these challenges, it becomes essential to think about green frameworks to design chemical products and processes.

Dr. Giuseppina Vanga
Dr. Claudia Bassano
Guest Editors

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• green chemistry
• CO₂ capture
• deep eutectic solvent
• ionic liquid
• amines
• solubility of CO₂
• adsorption of CO₂
• choline chloride