New Nanofiber Marks Important Step In Next Generation Battery and Water Electrolysis Development

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http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/588498/new-nanofiber-marks-important-step-next-generation-battery-and-water-electrolysis

[font face=Serif][font size=5]New Nanofiber Marks Important Step In Next Generation Battery and Water Electrolysis Development[/font]

Posted March 9, 2017 • Atlanta, GA

[font size=3]One of the keys to building electric cars that can travel longer distances and to powering more homes with renewable energy is developing efficient and highly capable energy storage systems.

Materials researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have created a nanofiber that could help enable the next generation of rechargeable batteries and increase the efficiency of hydrogen production from water electrolysis.

In a study that was published February 27 in Nature Communications and was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the researchers describe the development of double perovskite nanofiber that can be used as a highly efficient catalyst in ultrafast oxygen evolution reactions – one of the underlying electrochemical processes in hydrogen-based energy and the newer metal-air batteries.

“Metal-air batteries, such as those that could power electric vehicles in the future, are able to store a lot of energy in a much smaller space than current batteries,” said Meilin Liu, a Regents Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. “The problem is that the batteries lack a cost-efficient catalyst to improve their efficiency. This new catalyst will improve that process.”

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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14586

[bigbrother05]

1. My concern is that tRump and his DOE stooge, pRick Perry will screw it all up

With their slobbering devotion to oil & gas, funding for the future is likely to be curtailed. All the research grants to the high tech Unis needs to keep pace to provide the path to develop the capabilities for storage and efficiency. If not, buying Chinese power technology will rival the emergence of Asian vehicles in the 80's/90's and it took PBO's bail out to finally put US automakers back in the game.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. We're seeing fruits of research budgets of the past eight years or so...

We may see US research slow, but, it will continue elsewhere. Assuming Trump & co. understand business, they may understand the need for investment.