Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) (or carbon capture and sequestration or carbon control and sequestration) is the process of capturing waste carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources, such as fossil fuel power plants, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally an underground geological formation. The aim is to prevent the release of large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere (from fossil fuel use in power generation and other industries). Source: Wikipedia

Sensors, science, and service: in the lab with Jaquesta Adams

May 15, 2026
by Veronica Bartell
Adams is a Chemistry Ph.D. candidate in Professor Markita Landry's lab at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on developing near-infrared fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotube sensors for high spatiotemporal resolution neurochemical imaging.

Two UC Berkeley scholars elected to the American Philosophical Society

May 19, 2026
By Robert Sanders | Berkeley News
Historian Carla Hesse and chemist Jeffrey Long were named to the oldest scholarly society in the nation.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/05/13/two-uc-berkeley-scholars-elected-to-the-ame…

The Entrepreneurial University

May 5, 2026
Scientific American Custom Media | UC Berkeley
A research university emphasizes entrepreneurial science—and spawns start-ups in fields as varied as genetic medicine, humanoid robotics and carbon-catching materials.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/custom-media/uc-berkeley/technology-transferr…

UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry and Veolia announce collaborative framework

April 28, 2026
College of Chemistry Press Release
The agreement marks the beginning of a shared journey to research and develop ways to detect even the tiniest traces of impurities in water; a crucial step for making advanced chips used in the semiconductor industry.

Record-breaking "molecular sponge" pulls carbon from air faster than ever before

February 4, 2026
Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP)
A new material developed by researchers captures CO₂ from outdoor air with unprecedented speed, marking a critical leap toward practical direct air capture technology.

Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation, entrepreneurship combats climate change

May 16, 2024
Ivan Natividad, Elizabeth Costello | Berkeley News
UC Berkeley faculty are fast-tracking the development of new and creative climate solutions.

Three-layered nanocomposite tackles carbon capture’s biggest challenges

December 17, 2025
By Sarah C.P. Williams
Researchers have designed a three-layered nanocomposite that manages to maintain a high capture capacity even when exposed to humidity, acids, and other harsh conditions.

Breakthrough material captures industrial gases twice as efficiently

November 20, 2025
by Sarah C. P. Williams
Chemists at UC Berkeley have now created a porous material that breaks this rule, fitting two gas molecules into a single binding site—a feat that could revolutionize the separation or purification of critically important industrial gases.

Omar M. Yaghi to receive 2025 Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society’s highest honor

September 30, 2025
Press Release courtesy of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
Yaghi is being honored for pioneering the design and synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks, enabling advances in gas storage, carbon capture, and water harvesting from air.

New technique to capture CO2 could reduce power plant greenhouse gases

July 23, 2020
By Robert Sanders | UC Berkeley media relations

Use of MOFs to capture CO2

A big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural gas power plants to remove carbon dioxide from their flue emissions, a necessary step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming and climate change. Developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and ExxonMobil, the new technique uses a highly porous material called a metal-organic framework, or MOF, modified with nitrogen-containing amine molecules to capture the CO2 and low temperature steam to flush out the CO2 for other uses or to sequester it underground.