Microspheres to carry hydrogen, deliver drugs, filter gases and detect nuclear development

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SRNL researchers removed the top of a glass microsphere to show how palladium has easily passed through the spheres pores and assembled itself into a new nanostructure. Credit: Savannah River National Lab American Ceramic Society
SRNL researchers removed the top of a glass microsphere to show how palladium has easily passed through the sphere's pores and assembled itself into a new nanostructure. Credit: Savannah River National Lab, American Ceramic Society

What looks like a fertilized egg, flows like water, gets stuffed with catalysts and exotic nanostructures and may have the potential of making the current retail gasoline infrastructure compatible with hydrogen-based vehicles of the future – not to mention also contributing to arenas such as nuclear proliferation and global warming?


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