Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid ...

A team at Northwestern University has figured out how to turn methane into methanol in a single step, at room temperature, ...

Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...

A small glass tube, a copper coating, and a burst of plasma no hotter than room temperature. That is the setup behind a new ...

A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Leuven in Belgium has further elucidated an intriguing process that could be an important step toward a methanol fuel economy with ...

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...

Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol, a fuel and building block for a wide range of everyday materials, according to ...

BASF is patenting a process that it says will produce methanol without greenhouse gas emissions. The process begins with making synthesis gas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, via partial ...

HyOrc Corporation (OTCQB: HYOR) today announced the successful completion of the on-site process verification phase with ...

The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural gas -- into methanol at low temperatures has long been a holy grail. Now, researchers have found a breakthrough way to accomplish the feat using a ...