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June 21, 2013

Efficient and inexpensive: Researchers develop catalyst material for fuel cells
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 21, 2013
Efficient, robust and economic catalyst materials hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Scientists from Julich and Berlin have developed a material for converting hydrogen and oxygen to water using a tenth of the typical amount of platinum that was previously required. With the aid of state-of-the-art electron microscopy, the researchers discovered that the function of the nanometre-scale catalyst particles is decisively determined by their geometric shape and atomic st ... read more

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