{"id":135906,"date":"2022-02-20T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-catalysts-steer-hydrogen-fuel-cells-into-mainstream"},"modified":"2022-02-20T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:23:39","slug":"new-catalysts-steer-hydrogen-fuel-cells-into-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/new-catalysts-steer-hydrogen-fuel-cells-into-mainstream","title":{"rendered":"New catalysts steer hydrogen fuel cells into mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-catalysts-steer-hydrogen-fuel-cells-into-mainstream.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cornell chemists have discovered a class of nonprecious metal derivatives that can catalyze fuel cell reactions about as well as platinum, at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>This finding brings closer a future where <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen<\/a> fuel cells efficiently power cars, generators and even spacecraft with minimal greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese less expensive metals will enable wider deployment of hydrogen fuel cells,\u201d said H\u00e9ctor D. Abru\u00f1a, the \u00c9mile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences. \u201cThey will push us away from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fossil+fuels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fossil fuels<\/a> and toward <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/renewable+energy+sources\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">renewable energy sources<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell chemists have discovered a class of nonprecious metal derivatives that can catalyze fuel cell reactions about as well as platinum, at a fraction of the cost. This finding brings closer a future where hydrogen fuel cells efficiently power cars, generators and even spacecraft with minimal greenhouse gas emissions. \u201cThese less expensive metals will enable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135906","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}