CRADA Number NFE1706843 with SkyNano LLC (CRADA Final Report)

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) NFE-17-06843 between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and SkyNano LLC focused on studying and developing a better fundamental understanding of SkyNano’s technology to capture and convert CO₂ into solid carbon nanostructures, including carbon nanotubes (CNTs), using electrochemistry at elevated temperatures in molten salts. The project focused on developing a fundamental scientific understanding of how electrochemistry influences the dynamic catalytic processes that drive the formation of CNTs on electrodes, while developing synthesis and processing technology relevant to implementation of the technology – including chemical engineering to aid in recapturing the lithium carbonate electrolyte essential to the process, and the modeling and testing of systems with the required thermal management at practical scales.