LAUDA participates in an EU research project for inno-vative hydrogen fueling in the heavy-duty sector

4 million euros for European hydrogen development

19-Apr-2023 - Hydrogen has a key role to play in managing the energy transition. Hydrogen is extremely important for an environmentally friendly energy system, both for energy storage to supply heat and for future mobility. But this element has its downsides. Powerful cooling devices are needed to handle it. ...

Mimicking biological enzymes may be key to hydrogen fuel production

An ancient enzyme may be crucial in the world’s push toward a renewable energy economy

31-Mar-2023 - An ancient biological enzyme known as nickel-iron hydrogenase may play a key role in producing hydrogen for a renewables-based energy economy, researchers said. Careful study of the enzyme has led chemists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to design a synthetic molecule that mimics ...

Green hydrogen: How photoelectrochemical water splitting may become competitive

22-Mar-2023 - Sunlight can be used to produce green hydrogen directly from water in photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells. So far, systems based on this "direct approach" have not been energetically competitive. However, the balance changes as soon as some of the hydrogen in such PEC cells is used in-situ for a ...

Quantum Chemistry: Molecules caught tunneling

Breakthrough after 15 years of research

03-Mar-2023 - Quantum effects can play an important role in chemical reactions. Physicists led by Roland Wester of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, have now for the first time observed a quantum mechanical tunneling reaction in experiments. The observation can also be described exactly in theory. With the ...

2D Janus materials could harvest abundant hydrogen fuel

A new group of asymmetric 2D materials can readily catalyse the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen

28-Feb-2023 - Several studies have predicted that the water splitting reaction could be catalysed by certain groups of 2D materials – each measuring just a few atoms thick. One particularly promising group are named 2D Janus materials, whose two sides each feature a different molecular composition. Through new ...

2.5 million euros in funding for hydrogen innovations

Start-ups aim to make fuel cells for heavy-duty applications more cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and improve performance

27-Feb-2023 - The Slovenian start-up ReCatalyst and the German start-up ionysis have been selected for funding under the prestigious EIC Transition call and invited to sign the grant agreement with a funding volume of 2.5 million euros. Even before ionysis and ReCatalyst were founded, the founding teams worked ...

Sinopec Launches the World's Largest Green Hydrogen-Coal Chemical Project in Inner Mongolia

Investments of USD 828 million

24-Feb-2023 - China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) held launching ceremonies of its first hydrogen demonstration project in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Inner Mongolia Erdos Wind-Solar Green Hydrogen Project, on February 16 in Beijing, Hohhot and Erdos. The Project will utilize the ...

A greener alternative for aviation fuel

PSI and Swiss start-up company launch pilot plant for synthetic kerosene

20-Feb-2023 - The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Swiss start-up Metafuels are developing a new process for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). They are now collaborating on the construction and operation of the first pilot plant on the PSI campus to validate the technology and prepare it for ...

High-efficiency water splitting process revealed

Reaction of high interest to clean-energy innovations is closely analysed in X-ray study

17-Feb-2023 - Experiments at DESY’s light sources PETRA III and FLASH have revealed the complex mode of action behind the artificial splitting of water at its most efficient level. Using X-rays, a team led by DESY leading scientist Simone Techert managed to observe the interaction of water with a perovskite, a ...

Space Telescope unveils the dark side of pre-stellar ice chemistry

Chameleon I hides a wealth of frozen molecules

25-Jan-2023 - The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest, coldest regions of a molecular cloud measured to date has been announced by an international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This result allows astronomers to examine the simple icy molecules that will be ...