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ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Researchers from University of Delaware and the University of California Riverside are reimagining ways to grow food, leveraging electrolyzer technology and acetate to grow crops without photosynthesis.
UD engineers, international researchers find new catalyst to improve fuel cell materials
Researchers from University of Delaware and the University of California Riverside are reimagining ways to grow food, leveraging electrolyzer technology and acetate to grow crops without photosynthesis.
June 23, 2022
Researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of California Riverside are working on technology to produce food without sunlight through artificial photosynthesis. The collaborative effort, reported June 23 in Nature Food, could be the one small step needed to enable a giant leap in reimagining how food can be produced on Earth, and maybe even in space.
IMPROVING FUEL CELLS
UD Prof. Yushan Yan (above) and CBE postdoctoral researcher Teng Wang, along with collaborators from Switzerland, have recently published findings in Nature Materials on a new catalyst that could eliminate the need for precious metals in fuel cells.
UD engineers, international researchers find new catalyst to improve fuel cell materials
UD Prof. Yushan Yan (above) and CBE postdoctoral researcher Teng Wang, along with collaborators from Switzerland, have recently published findings in Nature Materials on a new catalyst that could eliminate the need for precious metals in fuel cells.
May 04, 2022
The research effort led by Wang and Yan, with UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Xile Hu and Weiyan Ni of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), builds on work to move from proton exchange membrane fuel cells to hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells — research that has been underway in Yan’s lab for nearly 20 years.
SUSTAINABLY SOURCING COAL WASTE
Engineering’s Fu, Jiao to refine filament manufacturing for 3D printing
Mar. 09, 2022
Thanks to $1 million in Department of Energy funding, supplemented by another $250,000 in funding from the University of Delaware, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Kun (Kelvin) Fu and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Feng Jiao will spend the next three years working with students to find efficient and effective ways to use graphene particles from domestic coal wastes in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printing.