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ScienceDaily: Automotive and Transportation News

ScienceDaily: Automotive and Transportation News


Water splitter runs on an ordinary AAA battery

Posted: 22 Aug 2014 05:40 AM PDT

Although touted as zero-emissions vehicles, most fuel cell vehicle run on hydrogen made from natural gas. Now scientists have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce hydrogen by water electrolysis. Unlike other water splitters that use precious-metal catalysts, the electrodes in this device are made of inexpensive and abundant nickel and iron.

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