{"id":136566,"date":"2023-08-09T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//?p=136566"},"modified":"2024-05-16T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:24:00","slug":"new-ethanol-fuel-cell-technology-rivals-fossil-fuels-and-electric-car-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//new-ethanol-fuel-cell-technology-rivals-fossil-fuels-and-electric-car-batteries/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566//","title":{"rendered":"New Ethanol Fuel Cell Technology Rivals Fossil Fuels and Electric Car Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"
University of Central Florida researchers have achieved new record-setting power density for ethanol fuel cells, helping advance the technology as a competitor to fossil fuels and electric car batteries./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566/n
Ethanol fuel cells offer cleaner emissions than fossil fuels and no charging times compared to electric vehicle batteries./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566/n
In recent studies published in the journals Nature Communications and Joule, UCF NanoScience Technology Center Associate Professor Yang Yang and his team developed new catalysts to make direct ethanol fuel cells last longer and boost their power density to a record level./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566/n Biomass-derived ethanol has been widely used in many industries, including as a liquid biofuel. However, the ethanol must go through a conversion process to become usable fuel and can only be indirectly converted to energy by blending with gasoline to achieve an acceptable conversion efficiency./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/136566/n