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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.

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BNL Researchers develop low-cost, efficient, non-noble metal electrocatalyst to produce hydrogen from water

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MAY 9, 2012

James Muckerman at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a new class of high-activity, low-cost, non-noble metal electrocatalyst that generates hydrogen gas from water. 2012), Hydrogen-Evolution Catalysts Based on Non-Nobel Metal Nickel–Molybdenum Nitride Nanosheets.

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Penn State, FSU team develops low-cost, efficient layered heterostructure catalyst for water-splitting

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JUNE 2, 2017

A team of scientists from Penn State and Florida State University have developed a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst consisting of synthesized stacked graphene and W x Mo 1–x S 2 alloy phases that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process. —Lei et al.

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Low Cost Water Hydrogen Energy

UCSC team develops high-performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen

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JANUARY 17, 2018

A low-cost, nanostructured composite material developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has shown performance comparable to Pt/C as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. Performance Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution” ChemSusChem 11, 130 doi: 10.1002/cssc.201701880.

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BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

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MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Summary of the economics of a hydrogen economy.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

A team led by researchers from Sandia National Laboratories has shown that molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ), exfoliated with lithiation intercalation to change its physical structure, performs as well as the best state-of-the-art catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) but at a significantly lower cost.

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KAUST team alters atomic composition of MoS2 to boost performance as water-splitting catalyst for H2 production

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APRIL 13, 2017

Researchers at KAUST have developed and used a novel way of increasing the chemical reactivity of a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material to produce a cheap and effective catalyst for water splitting to produce hydrogen. The speed of this hydrogen evolution reaction can be increased using a catalyst on the electrodes.

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KTH team develops new cost-effective water-splitting electrocatalyst for H2 production

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JUNE 27, 2016

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a new cost-effective electrocatalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen. Water splitting is considered one of the most promising strategies to produce chemical fuels such as hydrogen. —Fan et al.

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Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an “artificial leaf”—a solar water-splitting cell producing hydrogen and oxygen that operates in near-neutral pH conditions, both with and without connecting wires. aligned with the low-cost systems engineering and. Earlier post.).

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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JANUARY 11, 2014

First, scalability: AQDS contains only the Earth-abundant atoms carbon, sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen, and can be inexpensively manufactured on large scales. Furthermore, this electrode permits higher charging voltages by suppressing the parasitic water-splitting reactions. Quinones are abundant in crude oil as well as in green plants.

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Low Cost Grid Batteries Battery

Brookhaven team develops molybdenum-soy catalyst that rivals performance of noble metals for hydrogen production

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APRIL 24, 2013

This illustration depicts the synthesis of a new hydrogen-production catalyst from soybean proteins and ammonium molybdate. The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. But these two approaches had not yet been tried together.

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Researchers identify pentlandite as equally efficient alternative to platinum for hydrogen production

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JULY 27, 2016

S 8 ) as a direct ‘rock’ electrode without the need of further surface modifications for hydrogen evolution under acidic conditions. The pentlandite provides high activity and stability at low overpotential for H 2 generation. The mineral synthesized in the lab produced hydrogen much more efficiently than the naturally found variant.

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New Rutgers non-noble metal catalyst for hydrogen evolution performs as well as Pt in both acid and base

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MARCH 22, 2015

Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new noble metal-free catalyst—Ni 5 P 4 (nickel-5 phosphide-4)—performing on par with platinum for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in both strong acid and base. Left: schematic of Ni 5 P 4 surface showing water adsorption and conversion to H atoms and to H 2 product.

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STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab spin-off seeking to develop and commercialize a novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology; transportation applications

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Example of micro fibers produced with 20 wt % AB (ammonia borane) in water as core solution, showing smooth (nonporous) and cylindrical (noncollapsed) fibers; from a 2010 paper by the scientific team. The material could allow hydrogen to be stored in a cheap and practical way for transport applications, the company says.

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Hydrogen Commercial Transportation Polymer

Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for spontaneous water-splitting using sunlight

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MAY 9, 2018

The nanostructured photoelectrode results in spontaneous hydrogen evolution from water without any external bias applied with a faradaic efficiency of 30% and excellent stability. A promising way of storing solar energy is via chemical fuels, in particular hydrogen as it is considered as a future energy carrier.

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Water Low Cost Solar Hydrogen

Delivery of renewable isooctane to Audi tips interesting potential non-biomass pathway for biogasoline; “e-benzin” as solar fuel

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MAY 26, 2015

using just water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. This proprietary novel gas fermentation technology converts the carbon monoxide-containing waste gases emitted by blast furnace, coke oven and BOF (basic oxygen furnace) operations into low-cost ethanol and high-value chemicals. Earlier post.). —Thomas Buhl. Audi e-fuels.

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Audi Renewable Solar Fuel

Bio-inspired molybdenum sulfide catalyst offers low-cost and efficient photo-electrochemical water splitting to produce hydrogen

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MAY 2, 2011

The optimized photo-electrochemical water splitting device uses light absorbers made of silicon arranged in closely packed pillars, dotted with tiny clusters of the new molybdenum sulfide catalyst. We show that bio-inspired molecular clusters based on molybdenum and sulphur evolve hydrogen at rates comparable to that of platinum.

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Underground Coal Gasification Company In Partnership to Test Alkaline Fuel Cells for Power Generation

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

The agreement gives Linc Energy the exclusive right to test the AFC Fuel Cell Technology on hydrogen produced from Underground Coal Gasification (UCG). Alkaline fuel cells are characterized by low operating temperatures (below 80°C) and high efficiencies (50-70%) relative to other types of fuel cells.

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Coal Companies Power Powered

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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Researchers use melamine to create effective, low-cost carbon capture; potential tailpipe application

BNL Researchers develop low-cost, efficient, non-noble metal electrocatalyst to produce hydrogen from water

Penn State, FSU team develops low-cost, efficient layered heterostructure catalyst for water-splitting

UCSC team develops high-performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

KAUST team alters atomic composition of MoS2 to boost performance as water-splitting catalyst for H2 production

KTH team develops new cost-effective water-splitting electrocatalyst for H2 production

Researchers from MIT and Sun Catalytix develop an artificial leaf for solar water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Brookhaven team develops molybdenum-soy catalyst that rivals performance of noble metals for hydrogen production

Researchers identify pentlandite as equally efficient alternative to platinum for hydrogen production

New Rutgers non-noble metal catalyst for hydrogen evolution performs as well as Pt in both acid and base

STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab spin-off seeking to develop and commercialize a novel solid-state hydrogen storage technology; transportation applications

Exeter team develops low-cost photoelectrode for spontaneous water-splitting using sunlight

Delivery of renewable isooctane to Audi tips interesting potential non-biomass pathway for biogasoline; “e-benzin” as solar fuel

Bio-inspired molybdenum sulfide catalyst offers low-cost and efficient photo-electrochemical water splitting to produce hydrogen

Underground Coal Gasification Company In Partnership to Test Alkaline Fuel Cells for Power Generation

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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