Breakthrough in designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts for fuel cells
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Chemists are redesigning catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the growing market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Since all catalysts, such as platinum, speed chemical reactions only at edges and defects, the chemists synthesized these edge sites and set them on a molecular platform to create a catalyst that is all edge.