Innovation
Science of better fuel cells
MIT scientists working on household fuel cell using new style of catalyst.
An MIT energy and chemistry researcher is working on better ways to produce energy on a personal, household level. His goal: workable fuel cell tech that is efficient. Today he explained on NPR how his group has found a new catalytic process that takes water and through hydrolysis releases hydrogen which is then burned in the fuel cell to produce electricity.
The MIT hydrolysis process uses a catalyst consisting of cobalt metal, phosphate. Then add an electrode.