{"id":222148,"date":"2025-09-19T03:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/novel-catalyst-design-could-make-green-hydrogen-production-more-efficient-and-durable"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:25:30","slug":"novel-catalyst-design-could-make-green-hydrogen-production-more-efficient-and-durable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/novel-catalyst-design-could-make-green-hydrogen-production-more-efficient-and-durable","title":{"rendered":"Novel catalyst design could make green hydrogen production more efficient and durable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-catalyst-design-could-make-green-hydrogen-production-more-efficient-and-durable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of catalyst\u2014a material that speeds up chemical reactions\u2014that could make the production of clean hydrogen fuel more efficient and long-lasting has been developed by a team led by City University of Hong Kong, including researchers from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough uses high-density single atoms of iridium (a rare metal) to greatly improve the process of splitting water into <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oxygen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oxygen<\/a>, which is key to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/renewable+energy+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">renewable energy technologies<\/a> like hydrogen fuel cells and large-scale energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers created a highly stable and active <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/catalyst\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">catalyst<\/a> by placing single iridium atoms on ultra-thin sheets made of cobalt and cerium compounds. Called CoCe\u2013O\u2013IrSA, the final product performs exceptionally well in the water-splitting process. It requires very little extra energy (just 187 mV of overpotential at 100 mA cm<sup>-2<\/sup>) to drive the oxygen evolution reaction at a high rate, and it stays stable for more than 1,000 hours under demanding conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of catalyst\u2014a material that speeds up chemical reactions\u2014that could make the production of clean hydrogen fuel more efficient and long-lasting has been developed by a team led by City University of Hong Kong, including researchers from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Japan. This breakthrough uses high-density single atoms of iridium (a rare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}