{"id":1358,"date":"2022-11-25T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2022-11-25T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:03:42","slug":"plasmonic-catalyst-ammonia-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/plasmonic-catalyst-ammonia-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst Uses Light To Turn Ammonia Into Hydrogen Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"
A crucial light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy has been developed by researchers at Rice University. A group from Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Syzygy Plasmonics Inc., and Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics developed a scalable catalyst that requires only light to transform ammonia into clean-burning hydrogen fuel.<\/p>\n
The study comes after government and business investments to build markets and infrastructure for carbon-free liquid ammonia fuel that won’t contribute to global warming. With one nitrogen and three hydrogen atoms per molecule, liquid ammonia is both transportable and highly energetic.<\/p>\n
The new catalyst converts these molecules into hydrogen gas, a fuel that burns cleanly, and nitrogen gas, the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. Moreover, unlike conventional catalysts, it does not require heat. Instead, it harvests energy from sunlight or energy-efficient LEDs.<\/p>\n