Methanol has been made in a single step by zapping methane with pulses of electricity. The plasma-based reaction, which also ...

Six Northwestern researchers published a paper April 15 detailing how plasma can be used in a reaction to convert methane to ...

Methanol has wide-ranging potential as a cleaner fuel for powering advanced automobiles or producing plastic materials or other chemicals, and recently we're seeing how the production side of things ...

People often muse over catching lightning in a bottle, and what an amazing feat it would be. But have you ever wondered what ...

Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...

Inside a submerged glass tube, tiny bolts of plasma pulse through bubbling methane gas. It looks like miniature lightning, ...

A team at Northwestern University has figured out how to turn methane into methanol in a single step, at room temperature, using nothing more than tiny plasma discharges fired inside water-filled ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ...

New research detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes a recent development in the process of methane conversion. The researchers from the University of ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory developed a highly selective catalyst that converts methane to methanol in a single, low-temperature step, potentially simplifying industrial processes.

A team led by Professor Osami Shoji at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a technology to convert methane, the principal component of natural gas, into methanol at room temperature in water.

Researchers have discovered a way to convert the methane in natural gas into liquid methanol at room temperature. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have discovered a way to convert the ...