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UC Berkeley chemists Chris Chang, Jeff Long and Marcin Majda have redesigned catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the growing market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Tag: hydrogen
Chemists to develop new materials for hydrogen storage in vehicles
January 26, 2012:
The big challenge with hydrogen-powered fuel cells is how to safely and cheaply store enough hydrogen to power a vehicle for 300 miles. UC Berkeley and LBNL scientists led by chemists Jeffrey Long and Martin Head-Gordon recently received a three-year, $2.1 million grant from DOE to develop new hydrogen storage technologies for fuel cell electric vehicles.
Antihydrogen trapped for first time
November 17, 2010:
The particle accelerators at CERN in Geneva produce scads of antiprotons, which five years ago were combined at high speed with positrons to create for the first time antimatter atoms: antihydrogen. Those atoms annihilated with normal matter within microseconds, but an international team involving UC Berkeley and LBNL physicists has succeeded in slowing such atoms down and trapping them for a tenth of a second.
