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One Atom Just Flipped a Century of Petrochemistry — The Day ETH Zurich Turned CO2 Into Methanol With a Single Indium Atom
The technology to extract methanol from atmospheric CO2 has reached the atomic scale. ETH Zurich anchored individual indium atoms on hafnium oxide, achieving 70% higher productivity than conventional catalysts. This is not an incremental improvement but a potential key to unlocking fossil-free chemistry.