Rice University catalyst holds promise for clean, inexpensive hydrogen production Graphene doped with nitrogen and augmented with cobalt atoms has proven to be an effective, durable catalyst... Read more
Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build their own devices, but duplicating the steps in the complicated electronic dance of photosynthesis remains one of the biggest challenges... Read more
Platinum works well as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, but it has at least two drawbacks: It is expensive, and it degrades over time. Brown chemists have engineered a cheaper and more dur... Read more