(PhysOrg.com) -- The humble alga, hated by boaters and pool owners, may someday help provide us with the raw machinery to power our appliances.
Materials Science
May 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a way to avoid the use of expensive platinum in hydrogen fuel cells, the environmentally friendly devices that might replace current power sources ...
Materials Science
Apr 21, 2011
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A new combination of nanoparticles and graphene results in a more durable catalytic material for fuel cells, according to work published today online at the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The catalytic material ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 9, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fuel cells may power the cars of the future, but it's not enough to just make them work -- they have to be affordable. Cornell researchers have developed a novel way to synthesize a fuel cell electrocatalytic ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 9, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Control over material properties would reduce the amount of platinum needed.
Nanomaterials
Sep 27, 2010
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(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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In the quest for efficient, cost-effective and commercially viable fuel cells, scientists at Cornell University's Energy Materials Center have discovered a catalyst and catalyst-support combination that could make fuel cells ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 2, 2010
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When it comes to metal catalysts, the platinum standard is, well, platinum! However, at about $2,000 an ounce, platinum is more expensive than gold. The high cost of the raw material presents major challenges for the future ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 28, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new catalyst has been developed to generate hydrogen from water cheaply, but the research was originally intended to make molecules that behaved like magnets. Hydrogen is a clean power source currently ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and a bit of humor, ...
