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Mar 27 | News
The University of Connecticut's Center for Clean Energy Engineering has developed a new manufacturing process for fuel cells that could make highly efficient, fuel cell-powered vehicles a viable commercial option in the next 10 years and possibly sooner.
8/31/2011 | News
A team of University of Southern California scientists has developed an efficient method of using hydrogen as a fuel source. The method involves a catalyst system that releases enough hydrogen from its storage in ammonia borane to make it usable as a fuel source.
8/11/2011 | News
Often
located deep in the ocean, far from any source of light, hydrothermal
vents are home to variety of strange creatures. Researchers recently
reported finding mussels there that have their own on-board “fuel cells”
in the form of symbiotic bacteria that use hydrogen as an energy
source.
5/5/2011 | News
FuelCell Energy, Inc., a manufacturer of ultra-clean power
plants using renewable and other fuels for commercial, industrial,
government,
and utility customers, announced a $11.7 million cost share award from
the U.S.
Department of Energy for Phase III of the Solid State Energy
Conversion
Alliance coal-based systems program.
4/22/2011 | News
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 in
everything from personal data devices to automobiles.
2/9/2011 | News
A new combination of nanoparticles and graphene results
in a more durable catalytic material for fuel cells. The catalytic material is not only
hardier but more chemically active as well. The researchers are
confident the
results will help improve fuel cell design.
5/25/2010 | News
Chemists at Brown Univ. have come up with a promising advance in fuel-cell technology. The team has demonstrated that a nanoparticle with a palladium core and an iron-platinum shell outperforms commercially available pure-platinum catalysts and lasts longer. The finding could move fuel cells a step closer to reality.
5/10/2010 | News
Researchers from UC Davis and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are studying how a simple cobalt catalyst can split water
molecules. Such inexpensive catalysts could one day be used to convert
sunlight
into fuel that can run domestic fuel cells.
5/10/2010 | News
The Yale Solar Group is a team of chemists trying to use sunlight to split water into its elementary components: hydrogen (a green fuel) and oxygen. In doing so, they hope to pave the way for the development of photoelectrochemical cells that could be used to generate an environmentally benign transportation fuel.
5/4/2010 | News
MIT researchers are exploring a new technology
funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National
Science
Foundation, which they call a thermopower wave, that may convert
chemical
energy to fuel cells for micro-machines, sensors and emergency
communication
beacons.
