{"id":28648,"date":"2016-08-03T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/making-nail-polish-while-powering-fuel-cells"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:03:21","slug":"making-nail-polish-while-powering-fuel-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/making-nail-polish-while-powering-fuel-cells","title":{"rendered":"Making nail polish while powering fuel cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-nail-polish-while-powering-fuel-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is widely regarded as a promising and clean alternative energy source. The traditional source of hydrogen (H2) for fuel cell use is water, which is split into H2 and oxygen (O2). But O2 is a low-value product.<\/p>\n<p>So, this week in ACS Central Science (\u201cElectrochemical Partial Reforming of Ethanol into Ethyl Acetate Using Ultrathin Co3O4 Nanosheets as a Highly Selective Anode Catalyst\u201d), researchers report a new approach and a new catalyst that can produce not just hydrogen but also valuable chemicals, including the most common ingredient in nail polish.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-nail-polish-while-powering-fuel-cells.jpg\" alt=\"making chemical ethyl acetate while generating H2 gas\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found a way to make the valuable chemical ethyl acetate while generating H2 gas to power fuel cells. (Image: Nanfeng Zheng) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/news2\/green\/newsid=44124.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/news2\/green\/newsid=44124.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen is widely regarded as a promising and clean alternative energy source. The traditional source of hydrogen (H2) for fuel cell use is water, which is split into H2 and oxygen (O2). But O2 is a low-value product. So, this week in ACS Central Science (\u201cElectrochemical Partial Reforming of Ethanol into Ethyl Acetate Using Ultrathin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50069,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28648\/revisions\/50069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}