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Matthew Green
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Associate Professor Matthew Green’s research focuses on the development of novel materials and systems for applications such as water filtration and purification, carbon capture, polymer fundamentals and sustainability.
Green's CO₂ work focuses on the development of novel materials and systems for carbon capture, process engineering and integration with utilization and sequestration technologies.
His team currently is testing a prototype that removes CO₂ from the air through a type of direct air capture, or DAC, technology that requires no energy and is modeled on how natural trees function.
In 2024, Green collaborated with Mani Modayil Korah, an ASU assistant research scientist, to develop a novel technology that was named a semifinalist in the U.S. Department of Energy competition for the Direct Air Capture Pre-Commercial Technology Prize. Their product, deployed through their startup NuAria, is designed to be cost-effective and scalable by using environmentally friendly sorbents from inorganic salts similar to baking soda.
In March, 2025, Green was named to the National Academy of Inventors for developing revolutionary technologies to tackle the impact of the planet’s rising temperatures.
We are at a tipping point. It won’t be enough to simply take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. What we need to do is capture both the carbon materials we have already emitted into the atmosphere, trap the carbon dioxide we still emit and transform it so we can use it in new kinds of products and processes that won’t degrade our environment.
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