Even under ideal circumstances, platinum-based fuel cells lose a quarter of the total energy in the conversion process. "Using platinum [as a fuel cell catalyst] is like putting a resistor in the system," says Alfred Anderson, a Case Western Reserve University Chemistry Professor. Anderson blames the scientific community’s repeated failures to rectify the matter on the misconception that impurities on the platinum cathode are blocking the desired reaction. "The...
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