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http://www.nmtech.com.cn/sys/sec_bt2.jpg Fertilizers, Methanol/Downstream, Gas Production, Purification, Dimethyl Ether, Others. Chinese scholars develop new technology to facilitate the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol. Author/Source: Date: 2018-05-24. Clicks: 57. Reporters learned from the University of Science and Technology of China that a research team led by Professor Zeng Jie has recently developed a catalyst with platinum and molybdenum sulfide atoms dispersed at the atomic level; this arrangement reduces the distance between the platinum atoms on the catalyst surface, enabling a new catalytic mechanism based on \"co-catalysis by adjacent atoms at a single center,\" which allows for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol. The international authoritative academic journal Nature Nanotechnology published these findings recently. Converting carbon dioxide into clean liquid fuels such as methanol and formic acid can not only mitigate the greenhouse effect caused by carbon emissions but also serve as an ideal source of energy supplementation. Researchers explain that in this new type of catalyst, platinum is dispersed on the surface of the carrier at the atomic level, which enables maximum utilization of the precious metal atoms and reduces the cost of the material. The single-atom catalysts synthesized using previous preparation methods had a very low loading, which resulted in low overall catalytic efficiency. In this study, the researchers increased the loading to 7.5% while maintaining the dispersion of precious metal atoms at the atomic level, meeting the requirements for practical use of precious metal catalysts; this **accelerated the transition of single-atom catalysts from the laboratory to industrial applications**. Researchers have also found that in the reaction of converting carbon dioxide to methanol via hydrogenation, the catalytic activity of two adjacent platinum atoms is much higher than the sum of the activities of two isolated platinum atoms. To address this \"1+1>2\" phenomenon, they proposed the new concept of \"single-center neighboring atom collaborative catalysis\", breaking away from the traditional notion that single atoms do not interact with each other.