In a significant advancement for renewable energy technologies, a new catalyst has been developed that dramatically improves the efficiency and stability of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in ...

A bold claim that the deep ocean floor produces oxygen without any sunlight has drawn sharp scientific pushback, with critics ...

A research team has successfully designed and developed a proprietary non-precious metal oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst featuring a layered structure optimized for anion exchange membrane ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Water electrolysis has been regarded as an environmentally friendly route to hydrogen gas production. However, efficiency of water catalysis is severely limited by poor kinetics ...

The NiFeLa catalyst with 3d-5d orbital coupling exhibits remarkable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity and stability, enabling an anion-exchange membrane water electrolyzers device to achieve a ...

In the future, hydrogen produced from sunlight and water using photocatalysts could provide a source of clean energy. Researchers have developed a method to detect the oxygen produced from this ...

The field of electrocatalysis is dependent upon the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in many ways, which explains the enormous amount of research that has been conducted on it. In an aqueous acidic ...

Batteries supply electrons by undergoing reversible chemical reactions. That has meant that all the reactants have to be inside the battery, which adds to its weight and volume. Lithium-air batteries ...