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Overview CO₂ utilisation

• "Use of carbon dioxide as raw material to close the carbon cycle for the German chemical and polymer industries"- Simon Kaiser, Stefan Bringezu, Journal of Cleaner Production (2020)
• "Climate change mitigation potential of carbon capture and utilization in the chemical industry" - Arne Kätelhön et al., PNAS (2019)

CO₂ utilisation, energy and fuels

• "A photosensitizer–polyoxometalate dyad that enables the decoupling of light and dark reactions for delayed on-demand solar hydrogen production", Amthor et al., Nature Chemistry (2022)
• "Migration-assisted, moisture gradient process for ultrafast, continuous CO2 capture from dilute sources at ambient conditions" - Prajapati et al., Energy & Environmental Science (2022)
• "Crowd Oil, not Crude Oil" - Roland Dittmeyer et al., Nature Communications (2019)
• "Non-fossil CO2 recycling—The technical potential for the present and future utilization for fuels in Germany" - Eric Billig et al., Journal of CO2 Utilization (2019)

Ecologic assessment of CO₂ utilisation technology 

• Kaiser, Simon; Prontnicki, Katharina, Bringezu, Stefan. Environmental and economic assessment of global and German production locations for CO2-based methanol and naphtha. Green Chemistry.
• "The Need for and Path to Harmonized Life Cycle Assessment and Techno‐Economic Assessment for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization" - Volker Sick et al., Energy Technology (2019)
• "Assessing public acceptance of the life cycle of CO2-based fuels: Does information make the difference?" - Julia Offermann-van Heek et al., Energy Policy (2020)
• "Comparison of global warming potential between conventionally produced and CO2-based natural gas used in transport versus chemical production" - Wieland Hoppe et al., Journal of Cleaner Production (2017)
• "Towards sustainable elastomers from CO 2 : life cycle assessment of carbon capture and utilization for rubbers" - Raoul Meys at al., Green Chemistry (2019)
• "Power-to-What? – Environmental assessment of energy storage systems" - André Sternberg, André Bardow, Energy & Environmental Science 2015
• "Material or fuel: comparative cradle-to-grave climate and material footprint analysis for the use of methanol from recycled CO2" - Sebastian Turnau et al, Green Chemistry, 2020

Economic aspects of CO₂ utilisation

• "Economic aspirations connected to innovations in carbon capture and utilization value chains" - Henriette Naims, Journal of Industrial Ecology (2020)
• "Economics & carbon dioxide avoidance cost of methanol production based on renewable hydrogen and recycled carbon dioxide – power-to-methanol" - Christoph Hank et al., Sustainable Energy & Fuels (2018)
• "Economic assessment of CO2-based methane, methanol and polyoxymethylene production" - Wieland Hoppe et al., Journal of CO2 Utilization (2018)

Mineralisation of CO₂

• “Rock ‘n’ use of CO2: carbon footprint of carbon capture and utilization by mineralization” - Hesam Ostovari et al., Sustainable Energy & Fuels (2020)
• "New classification of CO2 mineralization processes and economic evaluation"- Pavan Kumar Naraharisetti et.al., Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2019)
• “The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal” - Cameron Hepburn et al., Nature (2019)
• “A review of mineral carbonation technologies to sequester CO2” - Aimaro Sanna et al., Chemical Society Reviews (2014)