The Clues for Cleaner Water

Pitt, Drexel, and Brookhaven engineers solve the “catalysis vs corrosion” mystery in electrochemical ozone production

08-May-2024 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Drexel University in Philadelphia, along with Brookhaven National Laboratory, are working to solve a multipart mystery to make water disinfection treatments more sustainable. Scalable electrochemical ozone production (EOP) technologies to disinfect ...

X-rays reveal elusive chemistry for better EV batteries

High energy x-rays to investigate the solid-electrolyte interphase, a chemical layer in batteries that's key to stabilizing lithium metal anodes

08-Dec-2022 - Researchers around the world are on a mission to relieve a bottleneck in the clean energy revolution:batteries. From electric vehicles to renewable grid-scale energy storage, batteries are at the heart of society’s most crucial green innovations—but they need to pack more energy to make these ...

Tuning electrode surfaces to optimize solar fuel production

An electrode material with modified surface atoms generates more electrical current, which drives the sunlight-powered reactions that split water into oxygen and hydrogen

24-Feb-2021 - Scientists have demonstrated that modifying the topmost layer of atoms on the surface of electrodes can have a remarkable impact on the activity of solar water splitting. As they reported in Nature Energy on Feb. 18, bismuth vanadate electrodes with more bismuth on the surface (relative to ...

Brookhaven Lab Chemist Radoslav Adzic Receives the U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen Program R&D Award

25-Jul-2008 - Radoslav Adzic, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has received a 2008 DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award, which recognizes him for his "outstanding contributions in electrocatalysis for fuel cells." Adzic was honored in June with a plaque at a ...

Brookhaven Lab Chemist Radoslav Adzic Receives Electrochemical Society Award

08-May-2007 - Radoslav Adzic, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Research Award of The Electrochemical Society's Energy Technology Division. The award recognizes Adzic's outstanding research contributions to the ...