Less is more: efficient hydrogen production with less precious metals
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July 22, 2024 – The world urgently needs to transition to sustainable energy sources to combat climate change and the energy crisis. Green hydrogen is an important step, and a large-scale hydrogen economy needs efficient, compact, and resilient technologies.
In a step towards sustainable energy, a team of researchers at the University of Twente led by Dr Marco Altomare have demonstrated a new method to reduce the use of precious metals such as platinum in green hydrogen production without sacrificing performance.
Main advantages: cheaper (less use of precious metal), safe and high efficiency.
This work was published in Advanced Functional Materials under the title ‘Dewetting of Pt Nanoparticles Boosts Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Due to Electronic Metal-Support Interaction.’
