The IIT-Madras team created ‘space fuel’ by trapping carbon dioxide in crystalline form with the help of water molecules.
This would in future help to curb greenhouse gases.
This was made in vacuum, 1 thousand billion times below the atmospheric pressure called ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and temperature close to minus 263 degree Celsius.
These conditions are present in deep space which they mimicked in the lab.
The Study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).