Improved fuel cell performance using semiconductor manufacturing technology

Feb 27, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A research team in Korea has synthesized metal nanoparticles that can drastically improve the performance of hydrogen fuel cell catalysts by using the semiconductor manufacturing technology ("Plasma-induced alloying as a green technology for synthesizing ternary nanoparticles with an early transition metal"). The Korea Institute of...

Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: More sensitive X-ray imaging: Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement

Home > Press > More sensitive X-ray imaging: Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement Researchers at MIT have shown how one could improve the efficiency of scintillators by at least tenfold by changing the material’s surface....

Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Breaking the black box of catalytic reactions: Research offers new understanding of complex catalysis, advances catalyst design

Home > Press > Breaking the black box of catalytic reactions: Research offers new understanding of complex catalysis, advances catalyst design The researcher’s multi-pronged strategy uses local structural descriptors extracted from X-ray absorption spectra through machine learning to constrain the set of candidate active sites, then the corresponding reaction pathways...