Pocket sized fuel cell, a step closer

A new catalyst for hydrogen evolution could see you carry around a fuel cell in your pocket to power electronic devices.

Commenting on a story for Chemistry World last year that employed a homogeneous catalyst to convert formic acid into hydrogen got Edman Tsang of the University of Oxford, in the UK, thinking. So he went into the lab and made a heterogeneous catalyst that does the same job at ambient temperatures, without the need for solvents or additives. More...

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/April/11041101.asp