Haber, J. A., Guevarra, D., Jung, S. H., Jin, J. & Gregoire, J. M. Discovery of New Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Electrocatalysts by Combinatorial Investigation of the Ni - La - Co - Ce Oxide Composition Space.
A team of researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Wisconsin synthesized a highly active and durable class of
electrocatalysts by exploiting the structural evolution of solid Pt - Ni bimetallic nanocrystals into porous cage - like structures or nanoframes.
A team of researchers has synthesized a highly active and durable class of
electrocatalysts by exploiting the structural evolution of solid Pt - Ni bimetallic nanocrystals into porous cage - like structures or nanoframes.
Not exact matches
A paper
by Yan's research group, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications, helps pin down the basic mechanisms of the fuel - cell reaction on platinum, which will help researchers create alternative
electrocatalysts.
Encouragingly, the DMFCs operated extremely well with high - concentration methanol as fuel
by sufficiently making use of the structural uniqueness and electronic coupling effects among the different domains of the noble metal - based heterogeneous
electrocatalysts.
The new flow battery developed
by the Harvard team already performs as well as vanadium flow batteries, with chemicals that are significantly less expensive, and with no precious metal
electrocatalyst.
It is technically possible to build an
electrocatalyst that avoids HER, but only
by using gold, platinum or one of a couple of noble gases — an approach that is far too costly to carry out on any scale.
In the new study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led
by Berkeley Lab scientist Peidong Yang discovered that an
electrocatalyst made up of copper nanoparticles provided the conditions necessary to break down carbon dioxide to form ethylene, ethanol, and propanol.