6. We've got to do... something about CO2

Project Mentors: Damon Ridley (Reaxys) and Anja Brunner (Reaxys)

Hey, this video got me thinking:
https://cdn-mobapi.bloomberg.com/mobapi/v2/player/media/video/cc/WiFi/nlt1pCchSEKpzx9xDNsbEw.m3u8

What are these guys doing? What have they made? How can I find out? – well, if I cannot find their actual science, then what chemistries are involved with treating carbon dioxide as a “waste management problem”?

So, how do I search for this? Where? Things that interest me may be adsorption, or is it absorption? How about chemisorption? Can I find sorption diagrams, or enthalpy of adsorption? Desorption? Anything about electrochemical fixation of carbon dioxide?

Let’s try to answer some of these questions. Quickly!

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OLCC S198 | Fri, 03/10/2017 - 02:45

My name is Lyndsie. I am an undergraduate at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I will be graduating in December 2017 with a B.A. in chemistry and a minor in secondary STEM education. Upon graduation, my goal is to teach high school chemistry for at least ten years and then make my way into a geochemistry field.

With that being said, I am very interested in your project and I would love to work with you guys. I believe this is a very important issue and I am really glad to see (in the video) people making progress in dealing with emissions and investing in the future of our Earth. I would also like to discuss the fact that a large portion of the population does not believe that CO2 is a problem and that climate change does not exist. As a future educator, I think that it is important for me to be able to teach my students information literacy, which ties in with special topic 1. There is a lot of information out there and I believe if we are going to make a difference we need to teach people how to differentiate between science and propaganda. 

So, in short, I would love to work with you guys on this project. And, if you have any ideas on how we can successfully inform the non-scientific community of its importance, I would love to incorporate or at least have a discussion about it.

Thank you!

Anja Brunner | Mon, 03/13/2017 - 03:23

Hello Lyndsie! Damon is currently traveling, so I am taking the liberty of responding to your comment. First off, I am glad you are interested in this project and am particularly excited about your suggestion to "merge" this topic with the project on information literacy. I think that approach will be very interesting and I would very much enjoy working with you on such a project. I think that at this point, we should see who else joins the project (whether this one or Project 1) and then we can "sit down" with Damon and others who join to hash out different sub-projects that people can work on individually or in groups.Cheers,Anja

OLCC S198 | Tue, 04/04/2017 - 20:20
Alright! So, I am planning on using this project opportunity for my chemistry seminar because I have not previously done any chemistry research. Dr. Belford, who is also my seminar mentor, has suggested that my seminar presentation go over how to use Reaxys in finding information for this project since a lot of faculty members attend the presentations and no one knows much about Reaxys. I would like to get started because my seminar is on the 14th of this month. Does anyone have a suggestion about where to begin? Lyndsie

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Damon Ridley | Tue, 04/11/2017 - 00:00
Lyndsie How would you search the topic on Google? Why don't you go ahead and do what you normally would do on Google (keep it simple, don't do anything 'complicated') and then perhaps summarise the information you get on the first two pages. Don't spend too much time on this - say no more than a few seconds on Google and then perhaps no more than 20 minutes to look through the first two pages of answers and summarise them. Since probably you don't want to record all your 'workings' on the OLCC website, then I suggest you get back to me by email (Professor Belford will give you my email address) and let me know what you did. Once I hear back from you then I'll confirm that you can go to the next step - in Reaxys, although if you are keen to try something then login to Reaxys and in the (text) search box that appears simply enter the exact same text that you did in Google and click Search. You should come to a screen of options and I'd suggest you click View Results for each of the first two and then 'play around a little' - meaning click 'Hit Data' for substances, and view a couple of the Document Records in full (that is, Title/Abstract/Index Terms). Think carefully about what you see. If you have gone to this second stage, you can include a few preliminary thoughts in the email to me. Damon PS Note that I am presently in Sydney - 15 hours ahead of you, so there could be some delay before I reply to your email if I receive it 'out of hours' (my time).

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Damon Ridley | Wed, 04/12/2017 - 03:17
Lyndsie How are you going? Pease let me know what you have done - so that I can make sure you are on the "right track". Damon

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