A major drawback is the cost of production, dominated by the quantity of an expensive platinum catalyst required for the oxygen reduction reaction. Recent research indicates promising replacement ...

A research team has identified a previously unknown degradation mechanism that occurs during the use of lithium-ion batteries ...

Carbon-based materials have seen rapid and growing scientific interest in the last decade focused on their use as catalysts for electrochemical applications ...

The acidic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) plays a crucial role in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Here, the authors develop a mesoporous amorphous-crystalline (a-c) heterojunction catalyst ...

In this reaction, carbon is oxidised because it gains oxygen. At the same time, copper oxide is reduced because oxygen is removed from it.

One of the challenges in using platinum (Pt) as a catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells is that it ...

"Most research has only focused on one part of the reaction, the oxygen reduction part, to either get water or hydrogen peroxide," says Dr. Yan Li, the first author of the paper. "Researchers have ...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...