Page 33 - Research Computing News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stronger cobalt for fuel cells PNNL leads effort to improve reaction activity, increase durability of cobalt as a fuel cell catalyst DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory By Mary Ann Showalter A multi-institutional research team led by materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has designed a highly active and durable catalyst that doesn't rely on costly platinum to spur the necessary chemical reaction. The new catalyst contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon. When compared to a similarly structured catalyst made from iron--another promising, well...

University of New Mexico Ph.D. Student Siavash Nikravesh and Mechanical Engineering Professor and Department Chair Yu-Lin Shen, using Center for Advanced Research Computing resources, have developed a new three-dimensional modeling approach to solving deformation problems, making it easier to design a wide variety of products including flexible electronics. The project is being funded by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium in the hopes that this technology may be used to design NASA equipment. The factors that determine exactly h...