{"id":227739,"date":"2025-12-24T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-molecular-switch-for-green-hydrogen-catalyst-changes-function-based-on-how-its-assembled"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:27:11","slug":"a-molecular-switch-for-green-hydrogen-catalyst-changes-function-based-on-how-its-assembled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-molecular-switch-for-green-hydrogen-catalyst-changes-function-based-on-how-its-assembled","title":{"rendered":"A molecular switch for green hydrogen: Catalyst changes function based on how it\u2019s assembled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-molecular-switch-for-green-hydrogen-catalyst-changes-function-based-on-how-its-assembled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is a cornerstone of the clean energy transition, but it relies on efficient and stable catalysts that work under acidic conditions\u2014currently dominated by precious metals like iridium and platinum.<\/p>\n<p>A research team from the Singular Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) in Spain, led by Mar\u00eda Gim\u00e9nez-L\u00f3pez, has made a fundamental advance toward Earth-abundant alternatives. Their work, <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202512902\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>, shows that a single molecular compound can act as a catalytic \u201cswitch,\u201d toggling between oxygen and hydrogen production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is a cornerstone of the clean energy transition, but it relies on efficient and stable catalysts that work under acidic conditions\u2014currently dominated by precious metals like iridium and platinum. A research team from the Singular Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) in Spain, led by Mar\u00eda [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227739","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=227739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}