Waste metal swarf used in experiment to transform it into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a discovery that could make hydrogen production more sustainable. Credit: University of Nottingham
The industry is facing a challenge with water electrolysis, as this process requires rare and expensive elements like platinum to catalyze the water splitting. With the limited global supply and increasing prices of precious metals, there is an urgent need for alternative electrocatalyst materials to produce hydrogen from water., who led the research team, said: “Industries in the UK alone generate millions of tons of metal waste annually.
Dr. Madasamy Thangamuthu, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nottingham who was responsible for the analysis of the structure and electrocatalytic activity of the new materials, says: “It is remarkable that we are able to produce hydrogen from water using only a tenth of the amount of platinum loading compared to state-of-the-art commercial catalysts.
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