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RUB researchers give floppy molecule a structure through solvent effects How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular "look" has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx. The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by a single rigid structure, but is dynamically flexible. By means of computer simulations, the team from the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry showed that CH5+ takes on a particular structure once you attach hydrogen molecules....

VANCOUVER, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLD) has announced the sale of a 175 kilowatt (kW) ClearGen(TM) distributed generation fuel cell system to Azure Hydrogen Energy Science and Technology Corporation of Beijing, China (Azure). Azure is Ballard's partner in China with a focus on development and enhancement of hydrogen energy technology for a variety of applications in that marketplace. Mr. Grand Mao, Chairman of Azure said, "The...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Investigators said they have solved the 76-year-old mystery surrounding the Hindenburg disaster that claimed the lives of 35 of the 100 passengers and crew members on board. According to a team led by British aeronautical engineer Jem Stansfield at the South West Research Institute (SWRI) in San Antonio, Texas, a static electricity-generated spark ignited hydrogen gas leaking from the airship – resulting in the massive explosion and...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Since the seventh century B.C., mankind has looked to the power of the sun to provide an energy source. In the earliest days, humans used glass and mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to make fire. Later, around the first century A.D., the Romans discovered large south facing windows could help let in the sun’s warmth. There's even one infamous tale of Greek scientist Archimedes using bronze shields to reflect and focus sunlight to...

Fast and efficient biologically inspired catalyst could someday make fuel cells cheaper To make fuel cells more economical, engineers want a fast and efficient iron-based molecule that splits hydrogen gas to make electricity. Online Feb. 17 at Nature Chemistry, researchers report such a catalyst. It is the first iron-based catalyst that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. The result moves chemists and engineers one step closer to widely affordable fuel cells. "A drawback with...

The PhD thesis of Aingeru Remiro-Eguskiza, a chemical engineer of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), deals with the quest for a process to produce hydrogen from bio-oil that has a lower impact on the environment than the process using current routes. The gradual increase in the price of crude oil and the negative environmental consequences that its use entails are putting us on the threshold of a change of energy model that will need to be tackled over the coming decades....

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For all those who worried back in 2004 that the sky was falling because the original model of the molecular structure of water toppled out, have no fear, because things can go back to the way they used to be. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) researchers confirmed the original tetrahedral model, after an international research group challenged the model nine-years ago, claiming that water molecules form bonds only with two...

Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation, and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new study, published in Molecular and Cellular Biology, finding that hydrogen sulfide can offer a wide scope of anti-aging benefits. Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 10, 2013 Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation, and publisher of various natural...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products' (NYSE: APD) proprietary hydrogen dispensing and infrastructure technology was featured today in Cleveland, Ohio where the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), in coordination with the NASA Glenn Research Center, held a hydrogen fuel cell bus program media event. Air Products provided the hydrogen fueling station dispensing unit, and hydrogen compression and storage technologies, which were installed...

University at Buffalo New technology could help power portable devices like satellite phones and radios Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to University at Buffalo researchers. In a series of experiments, the scientists created spherical silicon particles about 10 nanometers in diameter. When combined with water, these particles reacted to form silicic acid (a nontoxic byproduct) and hydrogen — a potential source...