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A Lung-inspired design turns Water into Fuel


This image shows the similarities between the exchange of gases in mammalian lungs and a newly developed mechanism to turn water into fuel.
Credit: Li et al. / Joule

Scientists at Stanford University have designed an electrocatalytic mechanism that works like a mammalian lung to convert water into fuel. Their research, published December 20 in the journal Joule, could help existing clean energy technologies run more efficiently.

The act of inhaling and exhaling is so automatic for most organisms that it could be mistaken as simple, but the mammalian breathing process is actually one of the most sophisticated systems for two-way gas exchange found in nature...

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