This breakthrough could help drastically reduce the cost of #hydrogen fuel cells!

A Durable, Cheaper Alternative To Platinum For Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found - Gas 2

gas2.org 18 Oct '12, 4pm

This breakthrough could help drastically reduce the cost of #hydrogen fuel cells!

With the help of his students, chemist Shouheng Sun developed this new catalyst. This alternative to platinum uses readily-available cobalt and graphene sheets, which is a single-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern. While the reaction took longer for the oxygen to separate the electrons from the hydrogen fuel, one the reaction gets going it is actually faster than platinum. This stripping of electrons produces the electric current needed to power the batteries of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. T

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