This article also has good explanations of the operation of a fuel cell.
New material could cut the use of expensive platinum by 80 percent.
| By Prachi Patel | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
A new type of catalyst could lead to fuel cells that use a fifth of
the platinum they use now. The new material, developed by researchers
at the University of Houston, Technical University of Berlin in
Germany, and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, consists of nanoparticles with cores made
of a copper-platinum alloy and an outer shell that is mostly platinum.
The material is up to five times as efficient as regular platinum.
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