Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Study Shows Nanoparticle Clusters of Platinum May Prove More Effective for Fuel Cells


A study led by Gabor Somorjai and Miquel Salmeron of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division showed that under high pressure, comparable to the pressures at which many industrial technologies operate, nanoparticle clusters of platinum potentially can out-perform the single crystals of platinum now used in fuel cells and catalytic converters. More>