MORE EFFICIENT NANOPARTICLES IN FUEL CELLS: HERE ARE THE
GUIDELINES
(December 14, 2015) Catalysts
play a major role in the field of technology applied to renewable energy. A new
study, just published in Nature Materials, provides a detailed account of how
to control the electron charge of nanoparticles of platinum, an important
catalyst in fuel cells, to maximize the efficiency of the process. The study is
the result of an intense international collaboration involving SISSA and
CNR-IOM of Trieste, the University of Barcelona, ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste,
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and Univerzita
Karlova of Prague.