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.

H2U Technologies has demonstrated proton exchange membrane electrolyzer stacks that replace expensive and scarce iridium catalysts with inexpensive and abundant catalyst materials. The company’s electrolyzer stacks leverage readily available catalyst materials to enable cost-effective green hydrogen generation.

NewHydrogen will further expand the existing sponsored research agreement with UCLA to develop technology to reduce the cost of green hydrogen production. The expanded program scope will include the development of efficient and stable hydrogen production using PEM electrolyzers.

In a serendipitous scientific discovery, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore have found that light can trigger a new mechanism in a catalytic material used extensively in water electrolysis. The result is a more energy-efficient – and potentially revolutionary – method of obtaining hydrogen.

H2U Technologies has announced its patented Catalyst Discovery Engine (CDE), which advances the identification of catalyst alternatives to costly and scarce iridium and other rare platinum group metals (PGM) used in electrolyzers to produce hydrogen.