Achievement: Lab Develops Catalyst that can Combine Fuel Cell and Battery into Single Device

Summary

Developments made in the lab of Vijay Ramani, professor and researchist at the McKelvy School of Engineering of Washington University in St. Louis, have led to the discovery of a bifunctional oxygen electrode catalyser, enabling the creation of a both fuel cell and electric battery powered device. The lab's researchers found how to balance the use of both platinum and lead to efficiently catalyse hydrogen and oxygen.

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References:

• https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=56922

• Gayen, P., et al. (2021) High-performance AEM unitized regenerative fuel cell using Pt-pyrochlore as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107205118.

• https://wustl.edu/