Chemists succeed in synthesizing artificial cell membrane
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in artificially synthesizing a cell membrane. Lipids, the molecules that make up cell membranes, have heads that mix easily with...
View ArticleBrookhaven Lab creates a new catalyst with real possibilities in clean energy
In a paper published recently, researchers at Brookhaven Lab led by chemist Etsuko Fujita announced that they had found a safe and reversible way to store hydrogen under mild (and therefore hopefully...
View ArticleRice, Tsinghua collaboration could yield low-cost, efficient alternative to...
Forests of carbon nanotubes are an efficient alternative for platinum electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), according to new research by collaborators at Rice University and Tsinghua...
View ArticleGold dust paves the way for better and cheaper catalysts
Generally, gold is highly prize the large scale. However, scientists at the Vienna University of Technology are interested in gold at the smallest scale possible. Single gold atoms are potentially the...
View ArticleORNL microscopy reveals workings behind promising inexpensive catalyst
A newly developed carbon nanotube material could help lower the cost of fuel cells, catalytic converters and similar energy-related technologies by delivering a substitute for expensive platinum...
View ArticleBringing down the cost of fuel cells
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered a catalyst that provides the same level of efficiency in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as the currently used platinum catalyst,...
View ArticleRethinking fuel cell catalysts
Even under ideal circumstances, platinum-based fuel cells lose a quarter of the total energy in the conversion process. "Using platinum [as a fuel cell catalyst] is like putting a resistor in the...
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