{"id":110829,"date":"2020-08-03T17:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/researchers-advance-fuel-cell-technology"},"modified":"2020-08-03T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:30:59","slug":"researchers-advance-fuel-cell-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/researchers-advance-fuel-cell-technology","title":{"rendered":"Researchers advance fuel cell technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-advance-fuel-cell-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington State University researchers have made a key advance in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that could make the highly energy-efficient and low-polluting technology a more viable alternative to gasoline combustion engines for powering cars.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Ph.D. graduate Qusay Bkour and Professor Su Ha in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers have developed a unique and inexpensive nanoparticle catalyst that allows the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fuel+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel cell<\/a> to convert logistic liquid fuels such as gasoline to electricity without stalling out during the electrochemical process. The research, featured in the journal, <i>Applied Catalysis B: Environmental<\/i>, could result in highly efficient gasoline-powered cars that produce low carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are very concerned about energy, the environment, and global warming,\u201d said Bkour. \u201cI\u2019m very excited because we can have a solution to the energy problem that also reduces the emissions that cause global warming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington State University researchers have made a key advance in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that could make the highly energy-efficient and low-polluting technology a more viable alternative to gasoline combustion engines for powering cars. Led by Ph.D. graduate Qusay Bkour and Professor Su Ha in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19,1497,4,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}