We prove that L-isoleucine, a bio-friendly amino acid, can be used to greatly increased CO2 uptake kinetics in the formation of CO2 hydrate without stirring. As far as we know, L-Isoleucine is an accelerator that can effectively promotes the formation of CO2 hydrate (the gravimetric capacity achieved to 331 mg g−1 in 1000 min at a concentration of 0.2 wt%). We also provided a preliminary explanation for this promotion mechanism of L-isoleucine by comparing the structure-performance. Our results will provide a reference for exploring the promotion mechanism of CO2 hydrate.

We first demonstrated that boric acid, an inexpensive, easily handled inorganic compound, can be used to dramatically enhance methane uptake kinetics in the formation of methane hydrate under static conditions....

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Chinese herbs are rich resources for the discovery of new environmentally friendly promoters for methane hydrate formation. We demonstrated that 20 out of 300 kinds of Chinese herbs were highly...

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