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Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Micro fuel cell runs cool Researchers have made a tiny methane fuel cell that works at 60 degrees Celsius. They have also shown that the fuel cell can use high concentration methanol to increase its operating time.
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Supercharging methanol for fuel cells Scientists in Germany and Italy have discovered a way to derive hydrogen gas from methanol at low temperatures and pressures using soluble ruthenium-based 'pincer' catalysts.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Solid fuel cell works in heat California Institute of Technology researchers have built a type of fuel cell that uses a solid acid electrolyte and either hydrogen or methanol as fuel. It could eventually be used to power cars.
Chemistry World November 5, 2008 James Urquhart	A cleaner route to methanol UK scientists say they have developed a way to efficiently produce methanol, the fuel and feedstock chemical, directly from glycerol, the waste by-product of industrial biodiesel production.
Chemistry World April 10, 2012 Andy Extance	Microfluidic Fuel Cell Powers Forward Researchers have challenged prevailing fuel cell wisdom by throwing out three standard characteristics of today's mainstream systems to drive down their cost.
Chemistry World November 13, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Hydrogen From Sewage Hits Production Records Scientists have drastically improved the efficiency of bacteria-powered fuel cells that convert biodegradable organic matter into hydrogen gas. They hope their discovery will make it possible to generate hydrogen from sewage, sustainably and on a large scale.
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean	Hydrogen Fuel Cells to Power Homes, Vehicles in Japan Next year, companies including Panasonic, Toshiba and Toyota will begin selling residential fuel cell systems across the nation, says Hisashi Yano, director of the Japan Hydrogen Fuel Cell demonstration park.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Cooler material boosts fuel cells A cathode that allows solid oxide fuel cells to operate at reduced temperaures promises to lower the cost of fuel cells, which could spur broader adoption of the technology.
Chemistry World October 2011	Fuelling the Future Fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat to battery and hybrid power in recent years. But hydrogen still holds promise in the long term.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Fuel Cell Converts Waste to Power One problem with fuel cells is that they produce carbon monoxide, which can gum up the works. Researchers have found a way to use the carbon monoxide to produce more energy in a reaction that can take place at room temperature.
Chemistry World October 2007 Bernard Bulkin	Can Chemistry Save the Planet? If we are to scale back our greenhouse gas emissions without society juddering to a halt, 21st century transport will need 21st century fuels. And of all the sciences, it is chemistry that is best placed to deliver them.
National Defense September 2006 Grace Jean	Fuel Cell Technology Positioned as Viable Alternative to Generators Developers of fuel cell technologies are confident that they can answer the call for "more power on the battlefield."
Chemistry World February 27, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Catalyst cleans up C-C bond formation Researchers in the US have developed an iridium catalyst that promotes carbon-carbon bond formation between methanol and allenes.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch	Process Ups Biodiesel Efficiency Researchers have shown that it is possible to convert biomass materials like corn into fuel that could be used in diesel engines in a way that automatically separates the fuel from water.
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson	The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Anders Bylund	Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen.
National Defense August 2008 McClintock & Holbrook	Alternative Fuels: Taking A Second Look at Ammonia The search for alternative transportation fuels has led to anhydrous ammonia, a chemical widely used as a fertilizer.
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Mike Allen	How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Before we can debate national energy policy -- or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles -- we need to know how these things stack up in the real world. So we crunched the numbers on alternative fuels.
Chemistry World April 28, 2009 Lewis Brindley	New catalyst means cheap hydrogen from power stations A new catalyst system could improve the efficiency of gas-fired power stations by producing hydrogen gas as a by-product, say Dutch researchers.
National Defense October 2006 Robert H. Williams	Easy Access to Hydrogen Proposed A Massachusetts company believes it has perfected technology that removes a key roadblock -- the scarcity of fuel outlets -- to the widespread use of hydrogen powered automobiles.
Chemistry World June 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Sulfur Removal Fuels Fuel Cell Future The arrival of materials that prevent sulfur-poisoning of fuel cells working at high temperatures adds to hopes that fuel cells will make it into the mainstream as an alternative energy source.
Chemistry World March 2006 Joe McEntee	Fuel Cells Head for Mass Market At the end of the day, wide-scale commercialization is a numbers game and developers will prosper or perish based on how they fare against metrics such as durability, reliability, cost and, most brutal of all, profitability. It's time to start delivering.
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 Philippa Ross	Breakthrough for bacterial hydrogen production Scientists in China have developed a device that can produce hydrogen from organic materials using bacteria at temperatures below 25 degrees Celsius.
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Erin Scottberg	How to Make 4 Alternative Fuels at Home: Goodbye, Big Oil! Home recipes for ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hydrogen with new technologies
Chemistry World August 10, 2009 Simon Hadlington	New catalyst for methane to methanol Chemists in Germany have invented a new solid catalyst for converting methane to methanol.
Technology Research News May 18, 2005	Catalyst Boosts Gasoline Fuel Cells Researchers have come up with a catalyst layer that can be put over a conventional anode to reform the fuel within the fuel cell. This allows hydrocarbons like gasoline to be used directly in fuel cells.
Geotimes August 2005 John A. Turner	The Sustainable Hydrogen Economy The major issue facing United States and most other countries in the world is how to supply transportation fuel. Hydrogen, as part of a sustainable energy supply, can meet the challenge of a domestically produced energy carrier that can replace gasoline, and can additionally address carbon dioxide and other emissions.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd	Traveling Light On a three-day mission, a Special Forces soldier might lug along 12 kilograms of batteries. But now the military is developing micro fuel cells that could weigh half as much as batteries, and could be recharged -- or rather refilled.
Chemistry World November 6, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Alloy lowers fuel-cell cost Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to make fuel cells that are potentially cheaper and easier to manufacture than previous prototypes. The method is a step toward making the relatively clean energy-generating technology commercially viable.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones	Synthetic Fuel From a Solar Collector Solar energy powers greenhouse-gas-free synthetic fuel production in Sandia experiment
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Chemistry World November 13, 2009 Hepeng Jia	New methanol fuel standards for China These standards are expected to promote methanol use in more Chinese cars, but analysts say it is unlikely to replace gasoline use in the country to any large degree.
Chemistry World November 17, 2011 Ross McLaren	Giving Fuel Cells a Vitamin Boost Vitamin B12 could replace platinum catalysts in fuel cells as a cheaper alternative.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Ethanol yields hydrogen Researchers have devised a way to extract hydrogen directly from ethanol, which would make for a renewable energy cycle. Ethanol is produced by converting biomass like cornstarch to sugar, then fermenting it.
Chemistry World February 29, 2008 Michael Gross	Modified Nanotubes Catalyse Fuel Cell A new type of catalyst made by attaching platinum nanoparticles to nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes could be used to oxidise methanol in fuel cells, thanks to work by Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World July 31, 2008	Breakthrough Catalyst for Splitting Water Scientists say they have solved a fundamental problem hampering renewable energy generation - how to split water cheaply into oxygen and hydrogen, under benign conditions, so that the gases can be stored as fuels.
Reactive Reports Issue 37 David Bradley	X-rays Reveal PSII Secret The possibility of using solar energy and water as a cheap source of hydrogen and oxygen is a step closer thanks to British researchers who discovered how the photosynthetic centre in a cyanobacterium works.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010	Navy to Power Unmanned Underwater Vehicles with Fuel Cell Stack Technology From Delphi The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) is awarding a sole-source contract to Delphi to provide the 30-cell SOFC fuel cell system.
Chemistry World December 24, 2013 Charlie Quigg	Toilet purification system doubles as hydrogen fuel cell An electrolysis cell that couples energy storage with water purification and reuse has been developed as part of a wider project to make a self-sustaining toilet.
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Chemistry World July 31, 2008 Kira Welter	Cooler fuel cells Solid oxide fuel cells, which generate electricity at around 700 C, may be able to operate at room temperature - thanks to a new layered material that is remarkably efficient at conducting oxygen ions.
Chemistry World February 28, 2014 Tim Wogan	Fuel cells put in the frame with catalysts that need far less platinum US scientists have created an exceptional fuel cell catalyst that contains far less platinum -- conventional catalysts need 36 times more platinum to hit the same levels of activity.
Chemistry World March 5, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Microfluidic fuel cells on paper Instrument-free point-of-care diagnostic devices could be taken to the next level with the development of microfluidic fuel cells on paper.
Chemistry World November 2, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	How Best to Use Biomass? Researchers have developed an efficient way of turning renewable resources like vegetable oils -- and potentially biomass - into hydrogen-rich gas. The gas could be converted to synthetic fuels and industrial chemicals, or used in fuel cells.
National Defense August 2009 Stew Magnuson	Recovery Act to Inject More Funds Into Military Fuel Cell Research The Obama administration announced plans to spend $20 million of Recovery Act funding on military fuel cell technology. The Defense Department's director of defense research and engineering office will be spearheading these efforts.
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Tim Wogan	GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated.
CIO June 16, 2010 John Brandon	Should Fuel Cells Power Your Data Center? Fuel cells are highly reliable and environmentally friendly, making them attractive to companies that want a greener data center. But they aren't for everyone.
Chemistry World April 11, 2008 Hepeng Jia	Industrial Standards Promote Methanol for Chinese Cars China is set to adopt a national industry standard for methanol-gasoline fuel blends, meaning more of the country's cars will be powered by methanol.