Decades in the Making – New Catalyst Could Make Hydrogen Fuel Cells Affordable
The commercialization of eco-friendly fuel has been stalled for decades by the high cost of platinum, but a study indicates that the low-cost catalyst may…
The commercialization of eco-friendly fuel has been stalled for decades by the high cost of platinum, but a study indicates that the low-cost catalyst may…
The demand for clean energy has never been higher, and it has created a global race to develop new technologies as alternatives to fossil fuels….
Individual Pt atoms participate in catalytic reactions to faciitate the electrode process by up to 10 times. Single-atom Pt catalysts are stable at 700 degrees…
Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture and…
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new fuel cell offering both exceptional power…
A new design of algae-powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more…
New research from Rice University shows that nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may be suitable replacements for platinum for fast oxygen reduction, the…
A team of chemists from Yale University have developed a framework for designing electricity-powered molecular catalysts that may prove vital for a new generation of…
New research from Rice University shows that graphene nanoribbons formed into a three-dimensional aerogel and enhanced with boron and nitrogen are excellent catalysts for fuel…
Researchers at Rice University have developed a cheap hybrid catalyst made from graphene quantum dots that outperforms platinum catalysts for certain reactions within fuel cells….
Scientists at the Center for Electrochemical Sciences and the Max Planck Institute have discovered a way of using cost-effective biocatalysts in fuel cells, a step…
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have combined cheap, oxide-based materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases using solar energy with a solar-to-hydrogen…
Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell that directly converts biomass to electricity with assistance from a catalyst activated…
By combining a microbial fuel cell and a type of solar cell called a photoelectrochemical cell, researchers from UC Santa Cruz have developed a hybrid…
Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a high-performing nanocatalyst that tolerates carbon monoxide in fuel cells, opening new, inexpensive pathways for zero-emission vehicles….
Researchers from the Berkeley Lab have developed a method by which molecular hydrogen-producing catalysts can be interfaced with a semiconductor that absorbs visible light, producing…
Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder have devised a solar-thermal system that can be used to split water in order to produce clean hydrogen…
A newly published study reveals how HZB and TU Delft scientists used a solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide to…