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| Green Energy |
| EMSL and NERSC Search for Fuel Alternative |
| One hurdle to producing hydrogen as an affordable, green alternative to gasoline is the exorbitant price of platinum, gold, and other precious metals used to drive the catalytic reactions. |
| Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL) Institute for Interfacial Catalysis and Southern Illinois University completed a theoretical study on how an inexpensive ceria catalyst can decompose a simple alcohol into hydrogen. |
To conduct this research, the team used the supercomputer and VASP software in the DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility at PNNL, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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