Researchers develop catalyst material for fuel cells

Platinum-nickel nano-octahedra save 90 % platinum

19-Jun-2013 - Efficient, robust and economic catalyst materials hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Scientists from Jülich and Berlin have developed a material for converting hydrogen and oxygen to water using a tenth of the typical amount of platinum that was previously required. ...

TU Berlin receives more than one million dollars in funding from the United States for catalysis research

20-Sep-2011 - "In the field of electromobility mainly research on lithium-ion battery technology has been promoted in the past years. But the limits of this technology become more and more obvious," states Peter Strasser, a professor for chemical engineering at the TU Berlin and member of the Cluster of ...