{"id":185325,"date":"2024-03-18T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mit-unveils-the-dance-of-protons-pioneering-energys-new-era"},"modified":"2024-03-18T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T07:24:09","slug":"mit-unveils-the-dance-of-protons-pioneering-energys-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mit-unveils-the-dance-of-protons-pioneering-energys-new-era","title":{"rendered":"MIT Unveils the Dance of Protons: Pioneering Energy\u2019s New Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-unveils-the-dance-of-protons-pioneering-energys-new-era.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New insights into how proton-coupled electron transfers occur at an electrode could help researchers design more efficient fuel cells and electrolyzers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A key chemical reaction \u2014 in which the movement of protons between the surface of an electrode and an electrolyte drives an electric current \u2014 is a critical step in many energy technologies, including fuel cells and the electrolyzers used to produce hydrogen gas.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, MIT chemists have mapped out in detail how these proton-coupled electron transfers happen at an electrode surface. Their results could help researchers design more efficient fuel cells, batteries, or other energy technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New insights into how proton-coupled electron transfers occur at an electrode could help researchers design more efficient fuel cells and electrolyzers. A key chemical reaction \u2014 in which the movement of protons between the surface of an electrode and an electrolyte drives an electric current \u2014 is a critical step in many energy technologies, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185325","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=185325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}