{"id":122365,"date":"2021-05-07T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/first-nanoscale-look-at-a-reaction-that-limits-the-efficiency-of-generating-clean-hydrogen-fuel"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:24:13","slug":"first-nanoscale-look-at-a-reaction-that-limits-the-efficiency-of-generating-clean-hydrogen-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/first-nanoscale-look-at-a-reaction-that-limits-the-efficiency-of-generating-clean-hydrogen-fuel","title":{"rendered":"First nanoscale look at a reaction that limits the efficiency of generating clean hydrogen fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-nanoscale-look-at-a-reaction-that-limits-the-efficiency-of-generating-clean-hydrogen-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transitioning from fossil fuels to a clean hydrogen economy will require cheaper and more efficient ways to use renewable sources of electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>But a key step in that process, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oxygen+evolution+reaction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oxygen evolution reaction<\/a> or OER, has proven to be a bottleneck. Today it\u2019s only about 75% efficient, and the precious metal catalysts used to accelerate the reaction, like platinum and iridium, are rare and expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Now an international team led by scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a suite of advanced tools to break through this bottleneck and improve other energy-related processes, such as finding ways to make lithium-ion batteries charge faster. The research team described their work in <i>Nature<\/i> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitioning from fossil fuels to a clean hydrogen economy will require cheaper and more efficient ways to use renewable sources of electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen. But a key step in that process, known as the oxygen evolution reaction or OER, has proven to be a bottleneck. Today it\u2019s only about 75% [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365","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=122365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}