{"id":174241,"date":"2023-10-15T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-use-new-new-cobalt-modified-nano-material-to-make-fuel-cells-more-robust-sustainable"},"modified":"2023-10-15T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:22:39","slug":"researchers-use-new-new-cobalt-modified-nano-material-to-make-fuel-cells-more-robust-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-use-new-new-cobalt-modified-nano-material-to-make-fuel-cells-more-robust-sustainable","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use new new cobalt-modified nano material to make fuel cells more robust, sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-new-new-cobalt-modified-nano-material-to-make-fuel-cells-more-robust-sustainable3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an urgent need to address climate change, making the development of sustainable energy alternatives more important than ever. While proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have shown great promise for energy production, particularly in the transportation industry, there is a long-standing problem with their durability and cost.<\/p>\n<p>A Western research team has addressed the issue with a new cobalt-modified nanomaterial making PEMFCs more robust, readily sourced and environmentally sustainable demonstrating just a two percent loss in efficiency rate following 20,000 cycles in a durability test.<\/p>\n<p>The new nanomaterial is used to enhance oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), the process that forms water in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fuel+cell\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fuel cell<\/a> allowing a higher current for more efficient power generation. The cobalt-modified nanomaterial also reduces the reliance on platinum to construct these fuel cells. A costly precious metal, and mined primarily in South Africa, only a few hundred tons of platinum are produced annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an urgent need to address climate change, making the development of sustainable energy alternatives more important than ever. While proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have shown great promise for energy production, particularly in the transportation industry, there is a long-standing problem with their durability and cost. A Western research team has addressed the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174241","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}