http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/breakthrough-in-designing-cheaper-more-efficient-catalysts-for-fuel-cells/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/breakthrough-in-designing-cheaper-more-efficient-catalysts-for-fuel-cells/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:25:00 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24711 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/09/breakthrough-in-designing-cheaper-more-efficient-catalysts-for-fuel-cells/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/01/26/berkeley-lab-to-develop-novel-materials-for-hydrogen-storage/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/01/26/berkeley-lab-to-develop-novel-materials-for-hydrogen-storage/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:54:33 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=24206 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.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/01/26/berkeley-lab-to-develop-novel-materials-for-hydrogen-storage/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/17/antihydrogen/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/17/antihydrogen/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:28:33 +0000 Robert Sanders http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1129 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/17/antihydrogen/feed/ 0