Seeing the Voids in Fuel Cell Materials at the Atomic Scale
New microscopy method opens the door to understanding atomic-scale variations in chemistry and improved materials performance in solid oxide fuel cells.
New microscopy method opens the door to understanding atomic-scale variations in chemistry and improved materials performance in solid oxide fuel cells.
New design significantly increases the lifetime and reduces the platinum content in electrocatalysts needed for advanced fuel cells for automotive applications.
Squeezing creates new class of material built from clusters of carbon atoms.
High yield production of Actinium-225 and Radium-223 achieved by high energy proton bombardment of natural thorium targets.
Researchers reveal that microorganisms are responsible for transforming mercury into methylmercury, a highly toxic form of mercury, in streams.
Nanoscale features in rocks enable more carbon dioxide to be trapped as a solid carbonate material underground.
Imaging tools aid research in global climate change, plant genetics, biofuels, agriculture, and carbon sequestration.
New calculations have quantified the boundaries and uncertainties of the ‘chart of the nuclides’—the extended periodic table of all matter.
Understanding how two microbes work together to produce the greenhouse gas methane.
A microbe not known for cellulose degradation has 15 cellulases that may improve biofuel production.
Insights into the origin of ligninases can help develop processes to convert biomass into bioenergy.
Chemistry provides a route to selective binding and extraction of radioactive cesium.