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FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Researchers at Stanford University have shown that porous polymer encapsulation of metal-supported catalysts can drive the selectivity of CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons. CO 2 (black and red) and hydrogen molecules (blue) react with the help of a ruthenium-based catalyst. Image credit: Chih-Jung Chen). —Zhou et al.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Furthermore, the potential to use eFuels instead of hydrogen can provide a significantly lower total cost of ownership and allow for faster deployment of fuel cell technology across the industry. This is especially important for long haul trucks using hydrogen fuel cells.

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JULY 21, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $64 million in Fiscal Year 2020 funding for 18 projects that will support the H2@Scale vision for affordable hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use. TOPIC 2: ADVANCED CARBON FIBER FOR COMPRESSED HYDROGEN AND NATURAL GAS STORAGE TANKS. University of Kentucky.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The clean technology company Danish Power Systems (DPS), with partners at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, reports the best operating stability for high-temperature polymer fuel cells (HTPEMFC) yet. μV h −1 for a reference membrane.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Ionomr Innovations, a developer of ion-exchange membranes and polymers for the hydrogen economy, closed a $15-million Series A funding round with lead investors Shell Ventures and Finindus, joined by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), NGIF Cleantech Ventures and Pallasite Ventures. —Hans Maenhout, Finindus, Investment Directo.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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MAY 5, 2020

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%. —Jia Liang. 9b09053.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Hydrogen Storage Materials Discovery. Hydrogen Storage Materials Discovery. Carnegie Mellon University. University of Connecticut.

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JUNE 21, 2020

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed high-power direct borohydride fuel cells (DBFC) that operate at double the voltage of conventional PEM hydrogen fuel cells. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor and corresponding author. and Raymond H.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

a developer of low-cost, high-performance polymers for electrochemical applications, announced its selection by the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for an award that will support the continued development of its alkaline exchange ionomers and membranes. 3) Perfluorinated polymers (i.e.,

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JUNE 15, 2016

Using particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), the researchers created a biocatalytic polymer material that converts methane to methanol. The enzymes retain up to 100% activity in the polymer construct. Remarkably, the enzymes retain up to 100 percent activity in the polymer. a) Schematic of PEG-pMMO hydrogel fabrication.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how nanoscale polymer films limit future cost reductions in fuel cell electric vehicles. Researchers agree that polymer electrolyte films that are only tens of nanometers thick are in some way responsible. The results were reported in a paper in the ACS journal Langmuir.

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MARCH 15, 2016

The researchers wrapped a graphene support in a specially prepared polymer to provide an ideal foundation for making uniform, highly active gold nanoparticle catalysts. A polybenzimidazole polymer supports the formation of gold nanoparticles with well-defined sizes on graphene. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 19, 2023

To produce cost-effective green hydrogen, industry and energy companies need efficient electrolyzers on a large scale. AEM electrolysis combines the respective technical advantages of polymer exchange membrane electrolysis (PEM) and alkaline electrolysis (AEL).

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JUNE 4, 2023

The collaboration is further supported by a strong research consortium including Safran Tech (the Research & Technology Center of Safran Group), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Fraunhofer Institute, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Strasbourg, and the IMDEA Energy Institute.

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APRIL 30, 2022

Center of Excellence for High Volume Manufacturing of Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Canada, with two major suppliers of hydrogen fuel cells (HFCs), has emerged as a global leader and a home to a significant concentration of global hydrogen & FC expertise & supply chain network. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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MARCH 22, 2011

Researchers at Case Western University have developed catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution that equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells. Credit: ACS, Wang et al. Click to enlarge. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Hydrogenation—which is used in a wide range of industrial applications, from food products, such as margarine, to petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and biofuels—typically involves the use of heavy metals, such as palladium or platinum, to catalyze the chemical reaction. Iron, however, rusts in the presence of oxygen or water.

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JULY 7, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $13 million in funding for the advancement of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. UTRC: the project will develop more durable cell electrodes to lower the cost and improve the performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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St. Louis Fuel Hydrogen Universal 264

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JANUARY 30, 2011

The final product is either a fine micro-fibrous polymer mat that resembles white tissue paper, or polymer micro-beads with a diameter of ~ 0.5 - 5µm, with the hydride material entrained in ~50 - 200nm pores within the polymer.

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APRIL 29, 2023

It was very curiosity-driven,” says Isak Engquist, a professor at Linköping University who led the effort. “We Isak Engquist, Linköping University Even though the wooden transistor still awaits its killer app, the idea to build wood-based electronics is not as crazy as it sounds. We thought: ‘Can we do it?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A team of researchers at MIT and Pennsylvania State University, which has been working on a new layer-by-layer (LbL) method for producing novel kinds of membranes, has developed a new solid-state polymer electrolyte for use in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and batteries using that method.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Understanding how the gut microbiome populations interact to deconstruct lignocellulosic materials to sugars or potential biofuels such as hydrogen and methane could potentially aid in the optimization of industrial cellulosic degradation. —Jennifer Pett-Ridge, a Lawrence Livermore National Lab biogeochemist and a co-author.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Neutron scattering analysis performed at ORNL shows the lamellar structure of a hydrogen-producing, biohybrid composite material formed by the self-assembly of naturally occurring, light harvesting proteins with polymers. Source: ORNL. Click to enlarge. Making a self-repairing synthetic photoconversion system is a pretty tall order.

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MAY 4, 2016

One of Anglo American Platinum’s investments, Hydrogenious Technologies , a German hydrogen storage startup, has launched its first commercial hydrogen storage and logistics system using its innovative Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology. In a dehydrogenation reaction, the hydrogenated (i.e., Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that polyaniline (PANI), a member of the organic conducting polymer family, is a promising photocathode material for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need for a co-catalyst.

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Arlington Polymer CO2 Solar 199

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MARCH 20, 2020

Currently the most popular system used for water electrolysis for hydrogen production relies on precious metals as catalysts. Using rotating-disk electrode experiments, we show that a high pH (>13) in the electrode binder is the critical factor for improving the activity of the hydrogen- and oxygen-evolution reactions in AEM electrolysers.

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Water Hydrogen Washington Polymer 186

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drayson Racing and Aston University (UK) have launched a major partnership to develop and demonstrate low carbon automotive technologies. The University’s European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) is a leader in biofuels and biomass research.

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JULY 2, 2017

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation followed by thermochemical catalysis—to produce renewable isoprene from biomass. The MTHF then undergoes catalytic dehydra-decyclization to isoprene.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

million) investment as part of its Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge. Hydrogen is catalyzed on the anode in the conventional fashion. The Carbon Trust’s Polymer Fuel Cell Challenge was launched in 2009 to deliver the critical reduction in fuel cell system costs that must be achieved to make mass market deployment a reality.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. —Twelve Co-Founder and CEO Nicholas Flanders.

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JULY 31, 2019

Circa’s solvent Cyrene—dihydrolevoglucosenone—is specifically being used to recover polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)—a high performance polymer widely used as a binder in Li-ion battery cathodes. By using Cyrene, R2LIB is helping recover a valuable polymer in a sustainable way. Sherwood, J., McElroy, C. Farmer, T.

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JULY 2, 2017

The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received a $1 million U.S. The funding was part of DOE’s strategy to invest in discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles.

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Carbon Fiber Kentucky Carbon Low Cost 150

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APRIL 19, 2018

Researchers at Jilin University in China have developed a new class of self-assembled crystalline porous organic salts (CPOSs) featuring high proton conductivity for applications such as proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells. The water molecules are bound to each other and to the charged groups through hydrogen bonding. Xing et al.

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Fuel Water Polymer Hydrogen 218

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JULY 20, 2019

Methanol is used as a clean fuel or an important intermediary in the production of many chemicals and polymers (plastics). synthesis gas (syngas), an essential building block in production of polymers and chemicals. The eSMR Methanol process is CO 2 -neutral when based on biogas as feedstock and green electricity for heating.

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