Hydrogen car price breakthrough: it's the platinum

The Ecologist
Oct 14, 2015, 3:26 pm58 pts
Hydrogen cars - and the fuel cells that drive them - are about to get a whole lot cheaper thanks to a redesign of the platinum catalyst that makes them work, writes Oliver Tickell. By inserting atom-sized holes into the precious metal's surface, its activity can be trebled.

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