Description

Use of photoionization to dissociate carbon from carbon dioxide. Ultra violet light will dissociate carbon from CO₂ under either high pressures and temperatures (in a near critical CO₂ state), or vacuum ultra violet light (VUV). UV photons are able to deposit high enough energy to vibrate carbon to a bent form of CO₂ and or allow oxygen to roam among molecule for ease of dissociation, pending on wavelength, CO₂ pressure and temperature. Additionally, total angular momentum can be enhanced to separate atoms or molecules.

Research Topics

Dissociation

Coherent Aligned CO₂

Recombination Prevention

Results

Although photoionization as a technique doesn't lend it self well to being able to dissociate large volumes of CO₂, given speed of dissociation per yield per energy, it does provide data on exact energy levels and molecular vibration modes which will help optimize later experiments in other topics, such as plasma. Photoionization and related papers yielding energy levels and molecular vibration modes will be further analyzed in the Metastudies1 project.

Circular polarized light aids in moving molecules to desired modes.

Reference papers

Resonate Laser light aligns molecular solids to aid in catalysis of solids: http://web.stanford.edu/~nmukherj/pdfs/Coherent_Control.pdf,
Vacuum UltraViolet light photodissociation: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6205/61.full
https://phys.org/news/2014-10-oxygen-molecules-carbon-dioxide.html
Optical or magnetic rotational movement: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.0912.pdf
Magnetic and optical molecular manipulation: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00574
Ferroelectric triggering of CO adsorption on lead zirco-titanate (001) surfaces: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35301#methods