A Childish Christmas Picture Is Actually a 5-Nanometer Chemical Catalyst

What befall if you take 1680 Ti atoms and 180 platinum atoms , then add a Christmas - game team of scientist ? A nanoscale catalyst to help split water into hydrogen , with more than a excrete resemblance to a snowman , is what .

This slice of festal art may look like a child ’s drawing , but it was in fact created by the Nanoscale Physics Research Lab in Birmingham , UK . It ’s made up of platinum clump embedded into a titanium dioxide fount , and each one measure just 5 nanometers across . In possibility , it can be used to speed up the response where weewee is split into its constituent elements — the process through which hydrogen is made for fuel cell . The ( sadly ) false - colour image was captured using an aberration - right rake transmission system electron microscope .

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