Granulated Lithium Silicate CO2 Absorber

[Old Krakken]

Back in 2003 I read an article about Toshiba Corp and Toshiba Ceramics Co, having come up with a Granulated Lithium Silicate which was able to absorb CO2 at room temperature up to 400 times its own weight. I sent Toshiba an email but never got a reply.
Has anyone else read about this? Carbon Dioxide Absorbing Lithium Silicate Ceramics from Toshiba

 

[kensuf]

Lithium and water don't mix so well. I'm not sure I'd want scrubber material made out of lithium.

 

[broncobowsher]

Sodium and water don't mix together very well either,
Chlorine will kill you.
But you need Sodium Chloride (table salt, ocean salt) in order to survive.
Got to look at the compound, not the elements that create the compound.

 

[fsardone]

There is some traction on sodium hydroxide in medical applications:
http://actamedicamarisiensis.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/amma-2015-0023.pdf

I would be a bit wary for underwater use, due to the high solubility in water and consequently the high risk of a caustic cocktail.
This is obviously different from the Lithium Silicate mentioned by the OP.

This is an interesting article (I did look it up due to the curiosity sparkled by the OP mentioning it) but it is geared toward environmental capture of CO2.

Morphologically and compositionally tuned lithium silicate nanorods as high-performance carbon dioxide sorbents - Journal of Materials Chemistry A (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C6TA06133H

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