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色花堂 researchers are working to improve energy sources for zero-emission, electric vehicles that are an environmentally friendly alternative to combustion engines.<\/p>\n

In some of their latest work, published recently in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the researchers detailed how they stabilized platinum atoms for use in large-scale production of metal-air batteries.<\/p>\n

Metal-air batteries are longer lasting than the often-used lithium-ion batteries found in electric cars.<\/p>\n

Platinum must be stabilized to work as an effective catalyst to jump-start electrochemical reactions that store energy in the batteries. Platinum-based batteries are safer than the fire-prone, lithium metal designs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe controlled the composition of the materials, and therefore have platinum atoms stabilized in the alloy nanosheets,\u201d said Yang Yang, an assistant professor in UCF\u2019s\u00a0NanoScience Technology Center\u00a0and study co-author.<\/p>\n

The research builds on Yang\u2019s recent work<\/a> that demonstrated ways to reduce the amount of the expensive metal platinum needed in these battery designs.<\/p>\n

The work was supported by a National Science Foundation grant.<\/p>\n

Coauthors included Zhao Li with UCF\u2019s Department of Materials Science and Engineering and NanoScience Technology Center; Wenhan Niu with UCF\u2019s NanoScience Technology Center; Zhenzhong Yang and Yingge Du with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Nusaiba Zaman and Abdelkader Kara with UCF\u2019s Department of Physics; Widitha Samarakoon, Maoyu Wang, Marcos Lucero, Manasi V. Vyas and Zhenxing Feng with Oregon State University; and Hui Cao, Hua Zhou and George E. Sterbinsky with Argonne National Laboratory.<\/p>\n

Yang holds joint appointments in UCF\u2019s NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member 色花堂\u2019s\u00a0Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation Cluster<\/a>. Before joining UCF in 2015, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. He received his doctorate in materials science from Tsinghua University in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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