Chemical engineers have long sought a cost effective route to useful products from methane rather than the resource-intensive process of breaking down the complex mixture of hydrocarbons found in petroleum. A viable process for the activation and coupling of methane into useful products has proven elusive—until now.
Siluria is the first company to develop a commercially viable approach, allowing for industrial-scale production. The key lies with Siluria’s revolutionary approach to catalysts combining the latest developments in nanomaterial science, biotechnology and chemical engineering. Inspired by the way nanomaterials are created by nature, metals and metal oxide crystals are grown on biological templates Pioneered at MIT, this technology offers unique ways to manipulate the surface of catalysts, improving their performance as they enable the chemical reaction necessary to transform methane.
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