Technology · Carbon capture and conversion
Who’s working on carbon capture and conversion?
Capturing CO2 is a separations problem, and turning it into fuels or chemicals is a catalysis problem; both are decided by cost per tonne and by how long sorbents and catalysts last. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.
What the Helikon Research Graph holds on carbon capture and conversion
12,000+
researchers
35,000+
publications
720+
U.S. patents
Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 9 October 2026; rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they are not added together.
How these were counted
- Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
- U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: Y02C, B01D, B01J, C01B, C25B, C07C, E21B. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
- Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
- Keyword set:
"carbon capture" OR "CO2 capture" OR "carbon dioxide capture" OR "direct air capture" OR "carbon capture and storage" OR "carbon capture and utilization" OR "CO2 utilization" OR "CO2 conversion" OR "carbon dioxide conversion" OR "CO2 electroreduction" OR "electrochemical CO2 reduction" OR "photocatalytic CO2 reduction" OR "CO2 reduction reaction" OR "CO2 hydrogenation" OR "CO2 sorbent" OR "CO2 adsorption" OR "post-combustion capture" OR "carbon mineralization"
Try it on a real problem
Partner Search ranks researchers against a problem statement by what their publications, patents and profiles say. This one is ready to run; edit it to fit your project.
We capture CO2 from a cement kiln flue stream and need a solid sorbent that keeps its capacity through thousands of cycles in humid gas that carries SO2. Looking for a group with sorbent synthesis and long-duration cycling data.Run this in Partner Search
Who’s working on this
Chemical engineering, chemistry and materials groups at universities, national laboratory carbon management programs, and company teams in sorbents, solvents, electrolyzers and process design. Many of the same groups also work on hydrogen and separation membranes.
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