{"id":170907,"date":"2023-08-30T13:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-fuel-cell-architecture-uses-nanowires-to-deliver-durability"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:01:35","slug":"new-fuel-cell-architecture-uses-nanowires-to-deliver-durability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-fuel-cell-architecture-uses-nanowires-to-deliver-durability","title":{"rendered":"New fuel cell architecture uses nanowires to deliver durability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-fuel-cell-architecture-uses-nanowires-to-deliver-durability3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A promising, more durable fuel cell design could help transform heavy-duty trucking and other clean fuel cell applications. Consisting of nanowires that are less susceptible to corrosion than other designs, the innovative electrode\u2014the heart of a polymer electrolyte-membrane fuel cell\u2014could usher in a new era for fuel cells, which use hydrogen as emission-free power for vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn real-world terms, this means that we can have a more durable fuel cell that will provide high fuel economy over a longer lifetime,\u201d said Jacob Spendelow, a scientist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory team that described its results in the journal <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>. \u201cThis work demonstrates that we can get rid of conventional carbon-based catalyst supports, eliminating the degradation problems associated with carbon corrosion, while still achieving high fuel cell performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The improved durability makes this fuel cell a promising candidate for use in heavy-duty trucking applications, which require fuel cell lifetimes of more than 25,000 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A promising, more durable fuel cell design could help transform heavy-duty trucking and other clean fuel cell applications. Consisting of nanowires that are less susceptible to corrosion than other designs, the innovative electrode\u2014the heart of a polymer electrolyte-membrane fuel cell\u2014could usher in a new era for fuel cells, which use hydrogen as emission-free power for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,269,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170907","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}