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"If the reaction were housed in a fuel cell where ammonia and ruthenium react at an electrode surface, it could cleanly produce electricity without the need for
by robthebrew 5y ago
"If the reaction were housed in a fuel cell where ammonia and ruthenium react at an electrode surface, it could cleanly produce electricity without the need for a catalytic converter."
If the ruthenium is not a catalytic converter, then what is it? A god particle?
- gus_massa 5y agoI agree, it's confusing/misleading/wrong. Anyway, I interpret is as: "This reaction does not produce Nitric Oxide, so it's not necessary pass the exhaust though a catalytic converter like the ones that car have."
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- AtlasBarfed 5y agoMaybe they mean "no Platinum"
- lambdatronics 5y agoPhys.org reporting is not great. Most methods for using ammonia in fuel cells rely on high-temperature catalysts to convert ammonia back to hydrogen, possibly in a separate unit from the fuel cell or else inside the fuel cell itself, if the fuel cell already runs at high temperature. These folks are claiming to have a room-temperature catalyst that can be part of a fuel cell that uses ammonia directly.
- muaytimbo 5y agoThey most likely proved this out in solution, this is speculation that a ruthenium coated electrode would produce current.