{"id":158599,"date":"2023-02-20T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/facile-and-scalable-production-of-a-fuel-cell-nanocatalyst-for-the-hydrogen-economy"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:24:25","slug":"facile-and-scalable-production-of-a-fuel-cell-nanocatalyst-for-the-hydrogen-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/facile-and-scalable-production-of-a-fuel-cell-nanocatalyst-for-the-hydrogen-economy","title":{"rendered":"Facile and scalable production of a fuel-cell nanocatalyst for the hydrogen economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facile-and-scalable-production-of-a-fuel-cell-nanocatalyst-for-the-hydrogen-economy4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fuel cell is an electric power generator that is capable of producing electricity from hydrogen gas while discharging only water as a waste product. It is hoped that this highly efficient clean energy system will play a key role in the adoption of the hydrogen economy, replacing the combustion engines and batteries in automobiles and trucks, as well as power plants.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cost of platinum, which can be up to ~30,000 USD per kg, has been a major limitation, making <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fuel+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel cell<\/a> catalysts prohibitively expensive. The production methods of highly-performing catalysts have also been complicated and largely limited. Accordingly, the development of a facile and scalable production method for platinum-based fuel cell catalysts is an urgent challenge, together with enhancing catalytic performance and stability while using a minimum amount of platinum.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle this issue, a research team led by Prof. Sung Yung-Eun and Prof. Hyeon Taeghwan at the Center for Nanoparticle Research (CNR) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea has discovered a novel method for the production of nanocatalysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fuel cell is an electric power generator that is capable of producing electricity from hydrogen gas while discharging only water as a waste product. It is hoped that this highly efficient clean energy system will play a key role in the adoption of the hydrogen economy, replacing the combustion engines and batteries in automobiles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158599","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}