Two Georgia Tech researchers in the College of Engineering have been named finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Their discoveries, which could create cleaner industri...

Two Georgia Tech researchers in the College of Engineering have been named finalists for the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Their discoveries, which could create cleaner industri...

Direct air capture (DAC) of CO2 is a key component in the portfolio of negative emissions technologies for mitigating global warming. However, even with the most potent amine sorbents, large-scale DAC...

Sorbent stability poses significant impacts on long-term performance of direct air capture (DAC) of CO2 and levelized cost of capture (LCOC). We report the DAC performance degradation of amine-infused...

3D-printed inverse templates are combined with ice templating to develop self-supported branched poly(ethylenimine) monoliths with regular channels of varying channel density and ordered macropores. A maximum uptake of 0.96 mmol of CO2/g of monolith from ambient air containing 45.5% RH is achieved from dynamic breakthrough experiments, which is a 31% increase compared to the CO2 uptake from adsorption under dry conditions for the same duration. The breakthrough experiments show characteristics of internal mass-transfer limitations. The cyclic dynamic breakthrough experiments indicate stable operation without significant loss in CO2 uptake across eight cycles. Moreover, the self-supported monolith shows minimal loss in adsorption capacity (7.7%) upon exposure to air containing 21% oxygen at 110 °C, in comparison to a conventional sorbent consisting of poly(ethylenimine) impregnated on Al2O3 (18.9%). The monoliths exhibit good mechanical stability, contributed by elastic deformation, corresponding to up to 74% strain and lower pressure drop compared to many existing monoliths in the literature.