(Phys.org) —When it comes to making catalysts that quickly snap chemical bonds and free the stored energy, researchers often focus on the active site. However, small changes far from the active site can also have a large ...
Materials Science
May 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Recycling waste materials into new products is a common method for sustaining a green environment, but it isn't only limited to reusing old cans, plastics, and paper. In chemistry, scientists use discarded ...
Materials Science
May 8, 2014
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Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) were the belles of the ball at recent auto shows in Los Angeles and Tokyo, and researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) continue to play ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 25, 2014
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A team of Harvard researchers showed that the commonly found bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located remotely in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 10, 2014
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Fuel cells convert chemical energy stored in fuel into electricity without combustion. They hold great promise as a clean energy alternative to fossil fuels because they use mostly hydrogen gas, and their only byproducts ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Rice University synthetic biologist Ramon Gonzalez sees a future – a near future, in fact – in which Americans get enough clean transportation fuel from natural gas to help make the nation energy independent.
Materials Science
Feb 7, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have developed a concept hydrogen battery based simply on storing protons produced by splitting water.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 6, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Fuel economy must improve 57 percent in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 10, 2014
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By replacing platinum with molybdenum in photoelectrochemical cells, scientists from two EPFL labs have developed a cheaper and scalable technique that can greatly improve hydrogen production through water splitting as a ...
Materials Science
Jan 8, 2014
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Fuel cells represent an important component of the energy transition, as they supply electrical energy without first having to create heat and steam from fossil fuels. Instead, they create the energy directly from a reaction ...
Materials Science
Dec 16, 2013
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