University of Wisconsin Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Discovery Could Make Platinum Fuel Cells Much More Durable https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4494 Engineering assistant prof. Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that making the fuel cells from very small platinum nanoparticles decreases their lifetime. Making them bigger is, though, better.

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