'Artificial leaf' concept inspires research into solar-powered fuel production
Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Nanophysics
May 4, 2020
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Electrocatalysis is one of the most studied topics in the field of material science, because it is extensively involved in many important energy-related processes, such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for fuel cells, ...
Materials Science
Apr 9, 2020
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Electrocatalysis is extensively involved in many important energy-related processes such as the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for fuel cells, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for green hydrogen production, and the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 23, 2020
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More organization at the molecular level could improve the efficiency of membranes used in the hydrogen fuel cells that provide energy to electric cars and other industrial applications, according to a review published in ...
Polymers
Feb 18, 2020
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Fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity. Now, a University of Toronto Engineering team has adapted technology from fuel cells to do the reverse: harness electricity to make valuable chemicals from waste carbon (CO2).
Materials Science
Feb 10, 2020
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Hydrogen-powered cars may soon become more than just a novelty after a UNSW-led team of scientists demonstrated a much cheaper and sustainable way to create the hydrogen required to power them.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 12, 2019
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Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have ...
Nanophysics
Nov 14, 2019
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The production of hydrogen peroxide can be much safer and simpler through a process developed at Rice University.
Materials Science
Oct 10, 2019
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Akira Takahashi (Researcher) and institutional collaborators have discovered that the blue pigment Prussian blue has a higher adsorption capacity than common ammonia adsorbents, and controlled the structure of Prussian blue ...
Materials Science
Oct 2, 2019
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Fuel cells are pollution-free power sources that convert chemical energy to electricity with high efficiency and zero emissions. Fuel cell cars, trucks, and buses would allow people to travel long distances with convenient ...
Materials Science
Aug 15, 2019
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