{"id":224423,"date":"2025-11-03T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/pfas-free-membrane-with-nanoscopic-plugs-enables-cleaner-cheaper-hydrogen-production"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:06:02","slug":"pfas-free-membrane-with-nanoscopic-plugs-enables-cleaner-cheaper-hydrogen-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/pfas-free-membrane-with-nanoscopic-plugs-enables-cleaner-cheaper-hydrogen-production","title":{"rendered":"PFAS-free membrane with nanoscopic plugs enables cleaner, cheaper hydrogen production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pfas-free-membrane-with-nanoscopic-plugs-enables-cleaner-cheaper-hydrogen-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen is already an important source of energy. The $250 billion industry supports fertilizer production, steel manufacturing, oil refining, and dozens of other vital activities. While nearly all hydrogen produced today is created using carbon-intensive methods, researchers are racing to develop cheaper ways of producing hydrogen with a lower carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most promising approaches is <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/water+electrolysis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water electrolysis<\/a>, a process that uses electricity to power a reactor\u2014called an electrolyzer\u2014to split water (H<sub>2<\/sub>O) molecules into hydrogen (H<sub>2<\/sub>) and oxygen (O<sub>2<\/sub>).<\/p>\n<p>Electrolyzers rely on a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/thin+membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thin membrane<\/a> that blocks O<sub>2<\/sub> and H<sub>2<\/sub> molecules while allowing positively charged <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/hydrogen+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen atoms <\/a>\u2014called protons\u2014to pass through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen is already an important source of energy. The $250 billion industry supports fertilizer production, steel manufacturing, oil refining, and dozens of other vital activities. While nearly all hydrogen produced today is created using carbon-intensive methods, researchers are racing to develop cheaper ways of producing hydrogen with a lower carbon footprint. One of the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224423","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}