{"id":202503,"date":"2025-11-27T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:11:10","slug":"ucl-understanding-and-optimising-catalyst-materials-for-sustainable-hydrogen-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202503\/","title":{"rendered":"UCL &#8211; Understanding and optimising catalyst materials for sustainable hydrogen generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCL \u2013 Understanding and optimising catalyst materials for sustainable hydrogen generation<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is used in the production of chemicals such as ammonia and methanol, as well as the refinement of steels, and there is substantial growth predicted in the use of hydrogen in power, transportation, and synthetic fuel sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, most hydrogen currently produced is not carbon neutral \u2013 it is made from fossil fuels without capturing the resulting greenhouse gas. A solution to this is green hydrogen \u2013 made with no toxic emissions by using surplus renewable power to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Currently this process requires scarce and precious materials catalysts such as platinum and iridium oxide, it is also exhibiting suboptimal levels of efficiency, thus making green hydrogen expensive and minimising adoption of this technology. There is also a lack of understanding of how and why the catalyst materials work on a fundamental level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hydrogen-central.com\/media-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 370px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 370\/300;padding: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-1.png\" alt=\"hydrogen central advertise\" class=\"lazyload\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this research, in collaboration with bp, is to use computational experiments to explore the behaviour of hydrogen on the surface of catalyst materials. We use computational tools such as molecular dynamics and density functional theory to explore the catalyst materials on an atomic scale and identify the effects that catalyst surface alterations have on the behaviour of hydrogen. This will allow us to identify the factors that affect the material\u2019s catalytic performance, and subsequently improve the catalyst materials for water electrolysis by increasing their intrinsic activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ<\/strong> the latest news shaping the hydrogen market at <a href=\"https:\/\/hydrogen-central.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hydrogen Central<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCL \u2013 Understanding and optimising catalyst materials for sustainable hydrogen generation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/engineering\/case-studies\/understanding-and-optimising-catalyst-materials-sustainable-hydrogen-generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCL \u2013 Understanding and optimising catalyst materials for sustainable hydrogen generation Hydrogen is used in the production of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,3536,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-202503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-innovation","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115620183119494347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}