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Platinum nanoparticle fuel cell catalysts.

Farther and Faster: Improving Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles with Nanoscience

December 15, 2018 Elliot

This is a plain-language summary of “Connecting Fuel Cell Catalyst Nanostructure and Accessibility Using Quantitative Cryo-STEM Tomography”, an open-access (free)…

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Posted in: Electric Vehicles, Electrochemistry, Energy, Nanoscience, Plain-language research summaries

What is “fast enough” for electric car batteries?

May 25, 2018 Elliot

Battery researchers typically talk about the speed that a battery is charging or discharging at in terms of its “C…

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Posted in: Electric Vehicles, Electrochemistry, Energy

US Energy in 2017, Sankey Style

May 3, 2018 Elliot

Every year, the US Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Lab put together an incredible chart, called a Sankey…

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Posted in: Climate change, Energy
3D rendering of a nanostructure

Seeing all Sides: a Clearer View of Nanostructures in 3D

February 1, 2018 Elliot

This is a plain-language summary of the article “A Simple Preparation Method for Full-Range Electron Tomography of Nanoparticles and Fine…

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Posted in: Nanoscience, Plain-language research summaries

Summarizing Science

Elliot

tldr: Scientists should write plain-language summaries of their technical publications to improve communication of science to the public. One of…

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Posted in: Plain-language research summaries

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