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Toshiba’s new large-scale production technology for electrolysis electrodes cuts iridium use to 1/10

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Toshiba Corporation has developed large-scale production technology for electrolysis electrodes that realize high level efficiency in Power to Gas (P2G) technology while reducing the use of iridium, one of the world’s rarest precious metals, to 1/10. Iridium is one of the rarest of precious metals.

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Evonik develops novel anion exchange membrane for electrolytic production of hydrogen; CHANNEL project

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Evonik has now developed a novel anion exchange membrane (AEM), which should contribute to the breakthrough of electrolytic production of hydrogen. Our membrane could allow commercial realization of highly efficient and economically viable electrolysis technology. Therefore, far less expensive materials can be used.

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Rice U team creates low-cost, high-efficiency integrated device for solar-driven water splitting; solar leaf

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Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. The current flows to the catalysts that turn water into hydrogen and oxygen, with a sunlight-to-hydrogen efficiency as high as 6.7%. It utilizes water and sunlight to get chemical fuels. Illustration by Jia Liang.

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Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL selects two green hydrogen startups for fourth cohort

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GCxN provides promising cleantech startups with technical resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment. Applications include green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells and carbon capture and utilization (CCU).

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BMW i Ventures invests in Natural Fiber Welding; plant-based leathers, yarns and foams

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The financing round will enable the company to scale from the batch processing of materials to commercial roll-to-roll production. MIRUM is made with natural, biodegradable polymers. Synthetic polyurethane-based leathers require around 5 kg carbon dioxide equivalent per kg of synthetic polymer produced.

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Researchers tailor catalyst microenvironments to enhance CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products

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However, to be commercially viable, the process needs to be improved to yield a higher amount of desirable carbon-rich products. Although we know copper is the best catalyst for this reaction, it doesn’t give high selectivity to the desired products. earlier post ). Credit: Berkeley Lab).

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Twelve and Emerging Fuels Technology sign master license agreement to scale SAF production

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Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct.

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