University of Wisconsin - Alternatives: covering fuel cells and other emerging and alternative technologies - Brief Article

Diesel Progress North American Edition, August, 2003

A team at the University of Wisconsin has developed a hydrogen-making catalyst that uses cheaper materials and yields fewer contaminants than do current processes, while extracting the element from common renewable plant sources. The process is said to perform as well as current methods that use precious metals such as platinum, yet runs at lower temperatures and is cleaner.

The team is now collaborating with scientists at Vi-rent Energy Systems in Wisconsin as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to develop catalysts for generating fuels from biomass.