Nanoparticles

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nayabsharif
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Nanoparticles

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Industries have not widely used the water splitting process, however, because of the prohibitive cost of the precious metal catalysts that are required -- usually platinum or ruthenium.
Many of the methods to split water also require too much energy, or the required materials break down too quickly. Instead, industries generally use a fossil-fuel based process to produce hydrogen for fuel cells, which generates harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
For their catalyst, the WSU research team added nanoparticles of relatively inexpensive copper to a cobalt-based framework. The new catalyst was able to conduct electricity better than the commonly used precious metal catalysts. It produced oxygen better than existing commercial catalysts and produced hydrogen at a comparable rate.
so my question is can we use any other nanoparticle for this spitting purpose?
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Hello. We noticed you are posting multiple questions that seem to be geared toward a more generic discussion of science used in industry but not directly related to a science fair project. This website is specifically for helping students with science fair projects. If you are doing a science fair project, please tell us more about your project. If not, there are other online forums more appropriate for your discussions.

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