News tagged with platinum atoms

Research demonstrates method that allows inexpensive carbon materials to store hydrogen at room temperature

Hydrogen has long been considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels for powering cars, trucks and even homes. But one major obstacle has been finding lightweight, robust and inexpensive ways of storing the gas, whose ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Finding answers century-old questions about platinum's catalytic properties

Researchers now understand more about why platinum is so efficient at producing power in hydrogen fuel cells.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Saving platinum: Monolayer of platinum on tungsten carbide catalyzes electrolytic production of hydrogen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is one of the most promising fuels of the future. Whether powered by wind or sun energy, electrolysis of water is the method of choice for producing hydrogen without emission of carbon ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Fuel cells get up to speed with a new kind of platinum

A new form of platinum that could be used to make cheaper, more efficient fuel cells has been created by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A Search for Stability for Platinum Catalysts

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new carbon support that greatly increases the durability of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells has been developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Catalytic Catamarans: Common industrial catalyst sports rafts made of platinum

Catalysts convert useless or unwanted chemicals into useful or more desirable ones. Research in this week's Science reveals new, important details about a common catalyst: how rafts of chemically reactive platin ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron, a replacement for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0