Platinum is wrong stuff for fuel cells as it wastes energy, researcher suggests
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 10:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Fuel cells are inefficient because the catalyst most commonly used to convert chemical energy to electricity is made of the wrong material, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University argues. Rather than continue the futile effort to tweak that material - platinum - to make it work better, Chemistry Professor Alfred Anderson urges his colleagues to start anew.