{"id":126,"date":"2008-05-19T13:46:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/fuel-cells\/mit-fuel-cell-50-percent-more-efficient\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T13:46:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T21:46:29","slug":"mit-fuel-cell-50-percent-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/fuel-cells\/mit-fuel-cell-50-percent-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Fuel Cell 50 Percent More Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new methanol fuel cell that is 50-percent more efficient that other comparable FC\u2019s. This direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), according to MIT Professor Paula Hammond is cost-effective, highly tunable and has more output than a comparable material called Nafion.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Hammond says the new layer-by-layer assembly technique is what makes the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2008\/fuel-cell-0516.html\" title=\"MIT fuel cell\">MIT fuel cell<\/a> superior to Dupont\u2019s Nafion. This type of nanotechnology makes the MIT DMFC less permeable to methanol leakage.<\/p>\n<p>Methanol is a fuel favored in many portable devices since it has a high energy density and can be used directly instead of being reformed into hydrogen then run through a PEM fuel cell. Methanol is a liquid and is easier to handle than hydrogen gas, is arguably safer and the only waste is water and a small amount of CO2.<\/p>\n<p>The thin film assembly technology that MIT has developed will not only be useful as a replacement for current battery technology, but the researchers are also examining its use for the photovoltaic industry as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new methanol fuel cell that is 50-percent more efficient that other comparable FC\u2019s. This direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), according to MIT Professor Paula Hammond is cost-effective, highly tunable and has more output than a comparable material called Nafion. In fact, Hammond says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-cells"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}