Catalyst fuels hydrogen car vision

Researchers in China have developed a catalyst that they think will enable more practical hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which could overthrow today’s convenient but polluting combustion engines. Ding Ma from Peking University in Beijing and co-workers make hydrogen and carbon dioxide from methanol and water, which happens in traditional approaches at 200–350˚C. Ma’s team’s platinum-molybdenum carbide catalyst lowers that to 150–190˚C.