Researchers aim to make cheaper fuel cells a reality

n illustration of a silver-palladium thin film deposited on a porous carbon electrode, which researchers believe could make hydrogen fuel cells easier and less expensive to manufacture. (José Zamora Zeledόn, John Douglin and Michaela Burke Stevens)

A team of researchers found that by substituting cheaper silver for some of the platinum group metals used in previous catalysts, they could make an equally effective fuel cell with a much lower price tag