Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career
How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 17, 2011
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Highway to hydrogenase: A new way to obtain the hydrogenase cofactor azadithiolate
To obtain hydrogen as an energy-rich and environmentally "clean" fuel by an inexpensive, simple method without using expensive metal catalysts preoccupies scientists around the world. Hydrogenases, enzymes employed by organisms ...
Materials Science
Jan 24, 2011
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Replacing precious metal catalysts with iron, nickel and other earth-abundant metals
Rare and expensive, precious metals such as platinum, rhodium and palladium are used extensively as catalysts on a large scale in preparing pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals, as well as for applications in energy ...
Other
Oct 20, 2010
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Hydrogen fuel for thought: Researchers find metallacarboranes may meet DOE storage goals
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by Rice University scientists suggests that a class of material known as metallacarborane could store hydrogen at or better than benchmarks set by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) ...
Materials Science
Sep 30, 2010
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Researchers discover less expensive low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen purification
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University have demonstrated the low-temperature efficacy of an atomically dispersed platinum catalyst, which ...
Materials Science
Sep 23, 2010
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An ideal candidate for sustainable catalysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of environmentally friendly and efficient catalysts is a major challenge in the field of chemical research, with the focus now being placed on the search for inexpensive metal catalysts. At ...
Materials Science
Sep 16, 2010
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Waste chip fat fuels hydrogen economy
Don't pour that dirty fat from the frier down the sink -- it could be used to make the fuel of the future.
Materials Science
Jul 27, 2010
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Inventors say Hydra offers clean water, hope for villages
The hose took brownish water from the scummy Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to a strange apparatus on the bank -- a trailer with a solar panel, a hydrogen tank, and other odd parts with flashing digital readouts.
Engineering
Jul 5, 2010
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Putting the pedal to the metal: Lithium metal improves fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water splitting is a clean way to generate hydrogen, which is seen by many as the fuel of the future. Scientists from the Energy Technology Research Institute, AIST in Tsukuba, Japan now report in ChemSusChem ...
Materials Science
May 14, 2010
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Engineers design, build major component for hydrogen cars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have completed work on a crucial component for an experimental hydrogen storage system for cars, part of efforts to reduce pollution and the use of fossil fuels in transportation.
Engineering
Feb 24, 2010
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