"Nanowire Breakthrough: Unleashing Fuel Cells with Unprecedented Durability"
Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a corrosion-resistant fuel cell design featuring a coaxial nanowire electrode, offering potential advancements for heavy-duty trucking and other clean fuel cell applications. The innovative electrode, consisting of nanowires that are less susceptible to corrosion, eliminates degradation problems associated with carbon corrosion while maintaining high fuel cell performance. In stress tests, the coaxial nanowire electrode showed impressive durability, losing only 2% of its performance after 5,000 cycles, compared to an 87% decline in performance for a traditional carbon-based electrode. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting and more efficient fuel cells for heavy-duty trucking and other clean energy applications.