Article by Maddy Lauria
Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson
May 04, 2022
University of Delaware College of Engineering postdoctoral researcher Teng Wang, Professor Yushan Yan and their Switzerland-based collaborators have published findings in Nature Materials on a new catalyst that could eliminate the need for precious metals in fuel cells.
The research effort led by Wang and Yan, with UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Xile Hu and Weiyan Ni of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), builds on work to move from proton exchange membrane fuel cells to hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells — research that has been underway in Yan’s lab for nearly 20 years.
The proton exchange membrane fuel cells are considered a promising clean-energy technology, but the need for…