The first direct, temporally resolved observations of intermediate steps in water oxidation
using cobalt oxide, an Earth - abundant solid catalyst, revealed kinetic bottlenecks whose elimination would help boost the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis systems.
Researchers have
used cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Bao said photocatalytic water - splitting experiments have been tried since the 1970s, but this was the first to
use cobalt oxide and the first to use neutral water under visible light at a high energy conversion efficiency without co-catalysts or sacrificial chemicals.
Not exact matches
Their research, published online Sunday in Nature Nanotechnology, involved the
use of
cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
His hydrogen - ion - creating system
uses an indium tin
oxide electrode and a container of water with
cobalt and potassium phosphate mixed in.
If lithium
cobalt oxide were
used in a battery giving a 400 - kilometre driving range, the
cobalt alone would cost more than $ 5000.
Besides sulfur's natural abundance, non-toxicity and low - cost, a sulfur - based cathode is theoretically capable of delivering storage up to 10 times greater than the commonly -
used lithium -
cobalt oxide cathodes in conventional lithium ion batteries.
A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin
cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron
oxide cores — that can be
used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.
They
used lithium titanium
oxide and lithium
cobalt oxide for the anode and cathode, existing metallic paints and carbon nanotube mixtures for the current collectors, and a chemical hodge - podge with a very lengthy name for the separator layer.
«We've obtained the first direct, temporally resolved observation of two intermediate steps in water oxidation
using an Earth - abundant solid catalyst,
cobalt oxide, that allowed us to identify the kinetic bottlenecks.
Mussini
uses Cobalt Chromium
Oxide Spinel for this colour.
CATL is the largest Chinese battery manufacturers but until recently, it has focused mainly on prismatic cell formats
using LiFePo (lithium iron phosphate) and NMC (lithium nickel manganese
cobalt oxide) chemistry, primarily for electric buses and trucks and energy storage applications.
Lithium iron phosphate is an alternative to the lithium
cobalt oxide used in most lithium - ion batteries in laptop computers.
A team of researchers led by University of Amsterdam (UvA) chemists has developed new Fischer - Tropsch catalysts — consisting of ultra-thin
cobalt shells surrounding inexpensive iron
oxide cores — that can be
used to produce synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass.