Sentences with phrase «fuel cell researcher»

«Compared to any other device that converts chemical energy into electricity, the fuel cell, and in particular the solid oxide or ceramic fuel cell, is hands down the most efficient,» says veteran fuel cell researcher Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, who published research pointing the way to lower temperature SOFCs on November 18 in Science.

So in recent years, fuel cell researchers have pursued a Goldilocks strategy, looking for midrange temperature fuel cells that operate at about 500 °C.

Not exact matches

Once researchers understand the rules for how to get specific shapes with TZPs that also assemble into larger structures, they can design materials with desired functions — for example, a membrane for a battery, a catalyst for a fuel cell, or even a therapeutic drug.

The BPEC cell developed by the researchers is based on the naturally occurring process of photosynthesis in plants, in which light drives electrons that produce storable chemical energetic molecules, that are the fuels of all cells in the animal and plant worlds.

Now, researchers report that by creating a fuel cell that can run at a midrange temperature, they've made an inexpensive, powerful version that could boost the prospects for plentiful green energy.

In one small breakthrough, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created new fluoropolymers that conduct protons three times better than current fuel cell coatings.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently developed a working prototype for a portable fuel cell energy source that could power a cellular phone 300 percent longer than existing rechargeable batteries do.

According to the Technion researchers, fuel cells can even play an energy saving role in airline and airport ground support operations when they are on used for systems such as de-icing and runway light towers.

To verify that MMC9 cells were fueling severe allergic reactions in the mice, the researchers treated the mice with an antibody (anti-Fc RImAb), which eliminated the cells and decreased food allergy symptoms.

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.

«Hydrogen produced onboard the aircraft during flight can be channeled to a fuel cell for electrical energy generation,» said lead researcher Dr. Shani Elitzur of the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

Hot power box A SOFC converts a fuel's chemical energy into electricity, says Bob Stokes, a longtime fuel - cell researcher and CEO of Versa Power Systems in Littleton, Colo., one of the up - and - coming developers of SOFCs.

Department of Energy national lab researchers found strain dramatically influences low - temperature oxygen electrocatalysis on perovskite oxides, enhancing bifunctional activity essential for fuel cells and metal — air batteries.

Next, the researchers incorporated the tungsten carbide nanoparticles into the membrane of a fuel cell.

Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for the growing fuel cell electric vehicle market, the researchers concluded.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new, carbon - neutral way to convert vegetable - based fuels to syngas, a breakthrough that could allow producers to power hydrogen fuel cells or create a replacement for America's dwindling supplies of natural gas, all without relying on fossil fuels.

In a new Perspective article, published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, researchers are aiming to tackle a fundamental debate in key reactions behind fuel cells and hydrogen production, which, if solved, could significantly bolster clean energy technologies.

The researchers hope their new paper encourages others to pursue TPV improvements — including fabrication of TPV cells on reusable substrates — that could lead to development of real - world systems at costs competitive with fossil fuels.

All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen.

First, the researchers inhibited the tumour cell mitochondria, by restricting the cancer cells only to glucose as a fuel source; then, they took away their glucose, effectively starving the cancer cells to death.

This can reduce the amount of platinum required for a fuel cell by about 70 per cent,» says Björn Wickman, researcher at the Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology.

Cancer stem cells, which fuel the growth of fatal tumours, can be knocked out by a one - two combination of antibiotics and Vitamin C in a new experimental strategy, published by researchers at the University of Salford, UK.

An M.I.T. researcher thinks he's found a way to efficiently use solar power to drive the electrolysis of water, which would isolate hydrogen for fuel cells.

Scientific American's 2006 researcher of the year, M.I.T.'s Angela Belcher, has engineered a virus so that it captures light energy and uses it to catalyze the splitting of water, a first step in a possible new way to generate hydrogen for fuel cells.

«Study boosts hope for cheaper fuel cells: Researchers show how to optimize nanomaterials for fuel - cell cathodes.»

Researchers have long looked for simple systems to combine protons and electrons to form H2, a carbon - free fuel that can be burned directly to power cars or run through a fuel cell to generate electricity.

With the discovery, the material that the researchers call «metal oxide - laser induced graphene» (MO - LIG) becomes a new candidate to replace expensive metals like platinum in catalytic fuel - cell applications in which oxygen and hydrogen are converted to water and electricity.

Nitrogen - doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may be suitable replacements for platinum for fast oxygen reduction, the key reaction in fuel cells that transform chemical energy into electricity, according to Rice University researchers.

Now a team led by researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a cellular process that cancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their growth.

Researchers have been on the quest for a fuel cell that works between these two temperatures, in a range that would be suitable for vehicles.

«This work paves the way for not only paper - based electronics with graphene circuits,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «it enables the creation of low - cost and disposable graphene - based electrochemical electrodes for myriad applications including sensors, biosensors, fuel cells and (medical) devices.»

Now, an international team of researchers led by Bingqing Wei, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware and the director of the Center for Fuel Cells and Batteries, is doing work that could lay the foundation for more widespread use of lithium metal batteries that would have more capacity than the lithium ion batteries commonly used in consumer electronics today.

Researchers are making progress in producing and storing hydrogen that could power a new generation of fuel - cell cars, despite seesaw domestic funding from successive presidential administrations.

Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.»

Rice University researchers found that some cancer cells get as much as 60 percent of their fuel from eating exosomes, tiny communications packets emitted by neighboring cells.

KTU researchers are testing the qualities and biocompatibility of MFC anodes, as the efficiency of microbial fuel cells by large part depend on them.

Study boosts hope for cheaper fuel cells: Rice University researchers show how to optimize nanomaterials for fuel - cell cathodes January 6th, 2018

Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania are working on improving the efficiency of microbial fuel cells (MFC) by using modified graphite felt.

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a new materials recipe for a battery - like hydrogen fuel cell that shields the nanocrystals from oxygen, moisture, and contaminants while pushing its performance forward in key areas.

Researchers use materials free of precious metals to speed the troubling side of the fuel cell reaction

Led by Yuehe Lin, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the researchers used inexpensive metal to make a super low density material, called an aerogel, to reduce the amount of precious metals required for fuel cell reactions.

Architectural insights of proteins that make up the wires might help researchers immobilize metal contaminants or engineer bio-inspired fuel cells

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self - assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton - exchange membranes for fuel cells.

A new design of algae - powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

A foldable, paper - based, urine - fueled, microbial fuel cell system that powers an emergency radio beacon has been developed by researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have determined a key step in improving solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), a promising clean energy technology that has struggled to gain wide acceptance in the marketplace.

In a fuel cell that relies on bacteria found in wastewater, Rochester researchers have developed an electrode using a common household material: paper.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 3, 2017 — In order to reduce the cost of next - generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicles, researchers have been developing alternatives to the prohibitively expensive platinum and platinum - group metal (PGM) catalysts currently used in fuel cell electrodes.

Already, researchers said, iPS cells have proved easier for individual labs to make than embryonic stem cells, fueling the intense interest.