{"id":146023,"date":"2022-09-09T19:25:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-little-strain-goes-a-long-way-in-reducing-fuel-cell-performance"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:25:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:25:50","slug":"a-little-strain-goes-a-long-way-in-reducing-fuel-cell-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-little-strain-goes-a-long-way-in-reducing-fuel-cell-performance","title":{"rendered":"A little strain goes a long way in reducing fuel cell performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-little-strain-goes-a-long-way-in-reducing-fuel-cell-performance3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of us are all too familiar with how strain in work relationships can impact performance, but new research shows that materials in electricity-producing fuel cells may be sensitive to strain on an entirely different level.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Kyushu University report that strain caused by just a 2% reduction in the distance between atoms when deposited on a surface leads to a whopping 99.999% decrease in the speed at which the materials conduct <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/hydrogen+ions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen ions<\/a>, greatly reducing the performance of solid oxide <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fuel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel<\/a> cells.<\/p>\n<p>Developing methods to reduce this strain will help bring high-performance fuel cells for clean energy production to a wider number of households in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us are all too familiar with how strain in work relationships can impact performance, but new research shows that materials in electricity-producing fuel cells may be sensitive to strain on an entirely different level. Researchers from Kyushu University report that strain caused by just a 2% reduction in the distance between atoms when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146023","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=146023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}