Team of UD engineers pushes cost-effective fuel cell technology forward Fuel cells are pollution-free power sources that convert chemical energy to electricity with high efficiency and zero... Read more
The transportation industry is one of the largest consumers of energy in the U.S. economy with increasing demand to make it cleaner and more efficient. While more people are using electric c... Read more
Fuel cells have not been particularly known for their practicality and affordability, but that may have just changed. There’s a new cell that runs on cheap fuel at temperatures comparable to... Read more
Researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at LiU have developed a fuel cell that uses lignin, a cheap by-product from paper manufacture and one of the most common biopolymers Ap... Read more
While the human race will always leave its carbon footprint on the Earth, it must continue to find ways to lessen the impact of its fossil fuel consumption. “Carbon capture” technologies – c... Read more
A photo-electrochemical cell has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna). It can chemically store the energy of ultraviolet light even at high temperatures. Nature shows us how it is done: Plants... Read more
Cyber secure system stores energy as compressed hydrogen, generates clean power. Integrated into power grid, system available for military, civilian uses After 16 months of development, Boe... Read more
Rice University scientists find possible replacement for platinum as catalyst Rice University chemists who developed a unique form of graphene have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticle... Read more
There are no magic bullets for global energy needs. But fuel cells in which electrical energy is harnessed directly from live, self-sustaining chemical reactions promise cheaper alternatives... Read more
A new fabrication technique that produces platinum hollow nanocages with ultra-thin walls could dramatically reduce the amount of the costly metal needed to provide catalytic activity in suc... Read more
A solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and FOM Foundation today present a very promising prototype of this in the j... Read more
Researchers in Trondheim have succeeded in getting bacteria to power a fuel cell. The “fuel” used is wastewater, and the products of the process are pure water droplets and electricity. “Thi... Read more
Car maker Toyota has announced that it will freely share almost 6,000 patents it owns covering hydrogen fuel cell technology. It said it took the step in a bid to drive development of cars t... Read more
Graphene membranes could be used to ‘sieve’ hydrogen gas from the atmosphere to then generate electricity, say Nobel Prize-winning researchers. The Nobel Prize winners for graphe... Read more
