A longer-lasting, higher-efficiency platinum catalyst has been developed by a Dalhousie University-led team, a result with major implications for the automobile industry.
Materials Science
Sep 25, 2018
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Technological advances in oil and gas well stimulation over the past decade now allow for the production of natural gas from shale gas trapped in rock formations underground. With the sudden increase in the availability of ...
Materials Science
Aug 14, 2018
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Researchers from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec are looking into reeds, tall wetlands plants, in order to make cheaper catalysts for high-performance fuel cells.
Materials Science
Jul 19, 2018
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University of Groningen physicists have induced magnetism in platinum with an electric field created by a paramagnetic ionic liquid. As only the surface of the platinum is affected, this creates a switchable 2-D ferromagnet. ...
General Physics
Apr 6, 2018
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The surface of platinum electrodes changes much more during use than was previously thought. In a collaboration between the Leiden Institutes of Chemistry and Physics, chemists Leon Jacobse, Yi-Fan Huang and Marc Koper, and ...
Materials Science
Feb 14, 2018
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Future cancer drugs that are activated by light and don't cause the toxic side-effects of current chemotherapy treatments are closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research made possible by the Monash Warwick Alliance, ...
Materials Science
Feb 13, 2018
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Chemists have measured the effects of nanoconfinement in catalysis by tracking single molecules as they dive down "nanowells" and react with catalysts at the bottom.
Nanophysics
Jan 31, 2018
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Methane in shale gas can be turned into hydrocarbon fuels using an innovative platinum and copper alloy catalyst, according to new research led by UCL (University College London) and Tufts University.
Materials Science
Jan 8, 2018
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To make modern-day fuel cells less expensive and more powerful, a team led by Johns Hopkins chemical engineers has drawn inspiration from the ancient Egyptian tradition of gilding.
Nanophysics
Dec 20, 2017
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Subnanometer noble-metal clusters have been studied for catalytic applications. For example, platinum is used as a catalyst for fuel cells. Platinum is indispensable as a material for the next-generation energy grid, but ...
Materials Science
Sep 25, 2017
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