BUTTE — Montana Tech junior Avery Carlson sat in the HPER Complex's Hall of Fame room and chatted about some research work she's done on campus involving fuel cells.

"I look at anode materials for solid oxide fuel cells and how carbon formation occurs on them using syn gas which is hydrogen and carbon monoxide," said Carlson. "So we can see the intermediates that form and how that affects carbon formations.

"We're using this substance called Nickel BZY and then applying syn gas to it and that forms carbon as a byproduct," she said. "We're trying to understand what intermediates occur in that reaction to mitigate that process."

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