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New Equation Predicts Best Materials for Single-Atom Catalysts for Producing Hydrogen

Xiao Cheng Zeng and his team have identified various neglected factors that are crucial for the performance of single-atom catalysts - individual atoms, normally metallic and anchored by adjacent molecular frameworks, initiating and speeding up chemical reactions.

17 May 2018

Artificial Photosynthesis Could Lead to Harvesting of Clean Hydrogen Fuel

A recently developed stable artificial photosynthesis device is capable of doubling the efficiency of harnessing sunlight to break apart both salt and fresh water, producing hydrogen that can then be utilized in fuel cells.

4 May 2018

A Promising New Eco-Friendly System for Purifying Natural Gas

In the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP Publishing, fundamental researchers at the Colorado School of Mines have suggested a unique two-part system for separating impurities from natural gas.

4 May 2018

Stanford Team Creates Water-Based Battery to Store Wind and Solar Energy

Researchers at Stanford have built a water-based battery that is capable of providing an inexpensive way to store solar or wind energy produced when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining so it can be fed back into the electric grid and be redistributed when there is a high demand.

2 May 2018

Innovative Catalyst for Hydrogen Production that Fights Anthropogenic Climate Change

At present, two of the most significant challenges common to developed countries are taking steps to address climate change and translating into communities that use considerable amounts of renewable energy for power.

1 May 2018

Porous Salts for Fuel Cells

Scientists have developed a new class of crystalline porous organic salts with high proton conductivity for applications such as proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, pol...

20 Apr 2018

Agenda for Minimizing Carbon Emissions in the Shipping Sector

A shipping sector summit has been investigating the ways of reducing its contribution to the worldwide greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Paris Agreement. However, the difficulty in achieving this is not a lack of low carbon technologies.

17 Apr 2018

Combining Semiconductor Nanocrystals with Molecular Catalysts to Produce Hydrogen

At present, the emulation of photosynthesis in plants—by using light to transform abundant and stable molecules such as CO2 and water into a high-energy fuel (hydrogen) or into chemicals of industrial benefit, is a major research challenge.

11 Apr 2018

Recycled Waste Soot Challenges Natural Graphite as Lithium-Ion Battery Anode

Using heat treatment, black carbon waste material from Merchant ships was transformed into highly crystalline, graphitic 3D structures known as nano-onions. Electrochemical testing showed its properties make it an ideal candidate for low-cost anodic material in lithium-ion batteries.

9 Apr 2018

Capturing and Converting CO2 into Useful Molecules

It is hoped by the next decade, CO2 waste could be affordably captured & transformed into useful molecules for renewable fuels, pharmaceuticals or biofuels.

2 Apr 2018