Expert's Opinion

The Carbon Age: Repurposing Carbon Emissions for Good

By repurposing carbon emissions, we can mitigate their impact on the climate while creating carbon nanotubes in a more sustainable manner.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Editor’s Note: Ilkka Varjos is CTO of Canatu. Carbon nanotube manufacturing through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process involves utilizing carbon-based gases as a raw material. This offers an exciting opportunity to reuse carbon emissions from industrial sources as a feedstock for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs).  Carbon emissions are a readily available byproduct of various industrial processes, including those from local power plants that contribute to global warming. ...

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