"Remarkably, all of these oxidation pathways involve reactions with water, which shows that the humidity inside the fuel cell has a significant influence on these processes." "The work clarifies a ...

Touch of gold improves nanoparticle fuel-cell reactions. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 24, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 03 / 120312114125.htm ...

Therefore, a direct cellulose fuel cell capable of generating electricity ... but the detailed mechanism of the electrochemical oxidation reaction of cellulose remains unclear.

New catalysts containing platinum and lead could improve the efficiency of fuel cells -- a promising ... activity and stability in oxidation reactions of methanol and ethanol.

Figure 2: The effect of alkali metal cations on HOR and methanol oxidation reaction currents ... for various fuel-cell reactions on extended platinum surfaces and real platinum nanoparticles ...

“It cuts our energy costs in half ... Fuel cells are basically small, gas-powered electrical plants. Instead of burning the gas to heat water and turn turbines, fuel cells use a chemical ...

Art by Zhou’s group. Image Credit: Beijing Zhongke Journal Publishing Co. Ltd. The ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) serves as a crucial anode reaction in direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs), ...

Researchers have realised an 11 times increase in a fuel cell’s oxygen reduction reaction by adding caffeine to the electrodes ... In a hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen undergoes oxidation at the anode, ...

A record-breaking catalyst could help a new generation of fuel-cell electric vehicles ... activity had fallen by about one-half. Despite this, after 263 h of reaction time, each Pt atom had ...

Researchers from Airbus and BMW have used Quantinuum’s H-series hardware and InQuanto quantum chemistry software to study catalysed oxidation ... reactions of catalysts in fuel cells.

"Remarkably, all of these oxidation pathways involve reactions with water, which shows that the humidity inside the fuel cell has a significant influence on these processes." "Corresponding ...