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Apr 26 | News
A team of scientists from University of Colorado Denver has developed a novel energy system that increases the amount of energy harvested from microbial fuel cells by more than 70 times. The new approach also greatly improves energy efficiency.
Apr 23 | News
Researchers from New York University and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric acid in a study that sheds new light on the workings of a promising fuel cell electrolyte.
Apr 12 | News
Equipped
with a fuel cell by Clarkson University engineers, a snail was able to
regenerate glucose consumed by biocatalytic electrodes, and, upon
feeding and relaxing, produce a new portion electrical energy. The
world's first "electrified snail" joins menagerie of cockroaches, rats,
rabbits, and other animals previously implanted with biofuel cells that
generate electricity.
Apr 4 | News
It took Thomas Edison two years and over 3,000 experiments to develop a marketable light bulb. It has taken 10 times that long and who-knows-how-many experiments to develop a system that is far more complicated: The inner workings of a reliable, marketable hydrogen fuel cell. Now a Michigan Technological University research team is nearing development of a mathematical model that will slash that R&D time and effort.
Mar 29 | News
In
a new world record for stationary applications, a planar solid oxide
fuel cell built at Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research in
Germany has exceeded an operating lifetime of 40,000 hours. Powered by
hydrogen, the cell functioned for the equivalent of five years at 64%
electricity conversion efficiency.
Mar 27 | News
Scientists
long have known that butterfly wings contain tiny scales that serve as
natural solar collectors to enable butterflies, which cannot generate
enough heat from their own metabolism, to remain active in the cold.
Scientists in China have used this same structure, taken from a black
butterfly to create a titanium dioxide-based device catalyst that
significantly improved hydrogen production.
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.
Jan 3 | News
Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are looking into a novel approach that could some day aid scientific space and planetary research without the need for power-intense options.
12/20/2011 | News
Researchers at Aalto
University in Finland have
developed a new and significantly cheaper method of manufacturing fuel
cells. A
noble metal nanoparticle catalyst for fuel cells is prepared using
atomic layer
deposition (ALD). This ALD method for manufacturing fuel cells requires
60%
less of the costly catalyst than current methods.
12/1/2011 | News
Liang Wang, a post-doctoral researcher in the University of Delaware's Center for Fuel Cell Research, is developing new materials and structures that can improve the quality of fuel cell technology by increasing the durability of the fuel cell membrane.
