Magnets could improve oxygen production in space

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Period20 Aug 2025

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  • TitleMagnets could improve oxygen production in space
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletChemical & Engineering News
    Media typeWeb
    Duration/Length/Size3 min
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    Date20/08/25
    DescriptionForces that go unnoticed on Earth could help move bubbles in orbiting spacecraft
    “That’s a very clever addition to the toolbox that engineers have now to control bubbles,” says David Fernandez Rivas, a chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Twente who was not part of the work. This sort of work helps reveal fundamental knowledge about electrochemical processes that could inform designs for electrodes and reactors for other reactions that could also be useful on Earth, he says. The team demonstrated, in addition to oxygen production, similar but less pronounced effects on light-driven hydrogen production from a photoelectrochemical cell.
    Producer/AuthorAmerican Chemical Society
    URLhttps://cen.acs.org/materials/electronic-materials/Magnets-improve-oxygen-production-space/103/web/2025/08
    PersonsDavid Fernández Rivas
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Keywords

  • bubble
  • electrolysis
  • space
  • microfluidics