A new catalyst developed at the University of Toronto (U of T) Engineering gives a boost to a number of clean energy technologies that depend on producing hydrogen (H2) from water.
In addition to being a key ingredient in everything from fuel to fertilisers, H2 has great potential as an energy storage medium. The idea would be to use renewable electricity to produce H2 from water, then later reverse the process in an electrochemical fuel cell, resulting in clean power on demand.
“H2 is a hugely important industrial feedstock, but unfortunately today it is derived overwhelmingly from fossil fuels, resulting in a large carbon footprint,” says Professor Ted Sargent (ECE), Senior Author on a paper in Nature Energy that describes the new catalyst.
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