{"id":176362,"date":"2023-11-20T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-engineer-nanoparticles-using-ion-irradiation-to-advance-clean-energy-fuel-conversion"},"modified":"2023-11-20T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:22:44","slug":"researchers-engineer-nanoparticles-using-ion-irradiation-to-advance-clean-energy-fuel-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/researchers-engineer-nanoparticles-using-ion-irradiation-to-advance-clean-energy-fuel-conversion","title":{"rendered":"Researchers engineer nanoparticles using ion irradiation to advance clean energy, fuel conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-engineer-nanoparticles-using-ion-irradiation-to-advance-clean-energy-fuel-conversion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and environmental technologies. They did so by leveraging ion irradiation, a technique in which beams of charged particles bombard a material.<\/p>\n<p>They went on to show that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoparticles<\/a> created this way have superior performance over their conventionally made counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe materials we have worked on could advance several technologies, from fuel cells to generate CO<sub>2<\/sub>-free electricity to the production of clean hydrogen feedstocks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+industry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical industry<\/a> [through electrolysis cells],\u201d says Bilge Yildiz, leader of the work and a professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and environmental technologies. They did so by leveraging ion irradiation, a technique in which beams of charged particles bombard a material. They went on to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,4,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176362","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=176362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}