As part of the HighHy project, an international team of researchers from Germany and New Zealand is working on improving the efficiency of the emerging AEM electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen. To make this possible, they have turned to the readily available metals manganese and nickel.

H2U Technologies and Tokyo Gas have entered a multi-year Joint Development Agreement to discover novel catalysts and develop techniques to apply those catalysts onto membranes. The companies will leverage H2U’s proprietary Catalyst Discovery Engine (CDE) to reduce the cost of PEM electrolyzers.

Agfa has announced that its Board of Directors has validated the investment for a new industrial unit for the company’s Zirfon membranes for green hydrogen production, next to further investments in growing the current facility. The unit will be installed in existing buildings at the company’s site in Mortsel, Belgium.

RMIT University researchers have developed a cheaper and more energy-efficient way to make hydrogen directly from seawater, skipping the need for desalination and its associated cost, energy consumption and carbon emissions. What is more, the new process generates no chlorine as a by-product.

South Korean scientists investigated a synthetic method to develop new metal oxyhydroxides electrocatalysts for water electrolysis. The study summarising their findings details the process, demonstrating the long-term stability and performance of the synthesized catalysts.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have successfully split seawater without pretreatment to produce green hydrogen. The team will now work on scaling up the system by using a larger electrolyser, so that it can be used in commercial processes such as hydrogen generation and ammonia synthesis.

Plug Power and Johnson Matthey (JM) have announced a long-term strategic partnership to accelerate the green hydrogen economy. JM will become an important strategic supplier of MEA components, providing a substantial portion of Plug’s demand for catalysts, membranes, and catalyst coated membranes (CCM).

Nickel-iron catalysts are promising materials for the production of green hydrogen, but they are limited by the easy dissolution of Fe inside water-splitting cells. Now, South Korean scientists have developed a novel TTP protection layer that dramatically increases the life and performance of Ni-Fe catalysts.