Posts Tagged ‘platinum’
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June 3rd, 2010
The age old problem…..
Reducing the costs of platinum catalysts in fuel cells has been a goal of the US Dept of Energy’s research program for years. Its easy to be sceptical of so-called breakthroughs in this challenge, but this news reported on Nanowerk looks pretty promising, with a number of new catalyst formulations including the addition of gold to platinum.
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April 27th, 2009
RSC’s ‘Chemistry in its Element’
The RSC’s series of podcasts on each individual element of the periodic table, called ‘Chemistry in its Element’ are a useful overview of the history, science and general knowledge of the elements. This week the subject is the precious metal Platinum, which sparked my interest in whether they had previously covered Gold. Indeed they have, which you can find here
(scroll down the page). It provides a pretty good summary of the technology of gold, although the writers could perhaps of covered the important uses, such as electronics, with a bit more rigour.
Richard Holliday
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