News tagged with zirconia
Affordable Fuel Cells May Get Boost From Artificial Diamonds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using specialized cubic zirconia or artificial diamonds, scientists from Nanjing Normal University in China and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory designed a membrane that could allow solid ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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In-situ observations reveal how nanoparticle catalysts lower operating temperatures in fuel cells
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Arizona State University have used environmental transmission electron microscopy (ETEM) to explain the role of nickel nanoparticles in lowering the ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Want fuel cells? Think outside the hydrogen tank
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people hear the words "fuel cell," they think of eco-friendly, hydrogen-powered cars that emit nothing more than water.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 18, 2011 |
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New technique makes artificial bones more natural
A new technique for producing artificial bone implants has been developed by Korean researchers. By mimicking natural bone, it is hoped the implant material will better complement the natural regeneration ...
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Self-cleaning anodes could facilitate cost-effective coal-powered fuel cells
Using barium oxide nanoparticles, researchers have developed a self-cleaning technique that could allow solid oxide fuel cells to be powered directly by coal gas at operating temperatures as low as 750 degrees Celsius. The ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Ceramic coatings may protect jet engines from volcanic ash
Last year's $2 billion shutdown of European airspace following a volcanic eruption in Iceland alerted everyone to the danger that ash clouds can pose to aircraft engines.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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A hot new look at working fuel cells
Measuring a fuel cell's overall performance is relatively easy, but measuring its components individually as they work together is a challenge. That's because one of the best experimental techniques for investigating ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Nanocatalyst is a gas: New formula could make fuel production better, greener
A nanoparticle-based catalyst developed at Rice University may give that tiger in your tank a little more roar.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Thin films show surprising reactivity, could lead to better fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material -- less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair -- could lead to improved ways of studying the ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Electric fields make ceramic production quicker, cheaper, better
Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that applying a small electric field results in faster formation of ceramic products during manufacture at lower temperatures, and enhances the strength ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Will Bloom box replace power grid? Details on Wednesday (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hot energy news for this week comes in the form of a small box called the Bloom box, whose inventor hopes that it will be in almost every US home in the next five to 10 years. K.R. Sridhar, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2010 |
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