The work, the team suggests, provides a facile strategy for fabricating highly efficient
electrocatalysts from earth - abundant materials for... Read more →
Not exact matches
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.
According to lead author Professor Yuan Chen,
from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, the new method can be used to create bifunctional oxygen
electrocatalysts for building rechargeable zinc - air batteries
from scratch.
Scientists at the University of Ulster's Nanotechnology Institute and collaborators
from Peking University and University of Oxford have developed reduced graphene oxide / platinum supported
electrocatalysts (Pt / RGO) that could make fuel cells more efficient and more resistant to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Methods: Scientists has been developing molecular
electrocatalysts for the oxidation of hydrogen, a common process in fuel cells, which could use hydrogen fuel created
from renewable energy.
The mission of the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis is to develop a comprehensive understanding of molecular
electrocatalysts that efficiently convert electrical energy into chemical bonds in fuels, or the reverse, convert chemical energy
from fuels into electrical energy.
Scientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two - dimensional
electrocatalysts — low - cost, layered transition - metal dichalcogenides (MX2) based on molybdenum and tungsten — to extract hydrogen
from water with high performance and low cost.