{"id":239363,"date":"2026-06-20T06:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/15-atom-iridium-nanoclusters-stay-stable-20-hours-outperform-commercial-catalysts"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:10:12","slug":"15-atom-iridium-nanoclusters-stay-stable-20-hours-outperform-commercial-catalysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/15-atom-iridium-nanoclusters-stay-stable-20-hours-outperform-commercial-catalysts","title":{"rendered":"15-atom Iridium Nanoclusters Stay Stable 20 Hours, Outperform Commercial Catalysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/15-atom-iridium-nanoclusters-stay-stable-20-hours-outperform-commercial-catalysts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team from Tohoku University, Tokyo University of Science, Vanderbilt University and the University of Adelaide has discovered a novel, exceptionally simple method to precisely synthesize extremely small iridium nanoclusters in ambient air. Such a feat was previously considered highly challenging. In addition, the nanoclusters outperform conventional, commercially available iridium catalysts by 1.5 times in mass activity, while maintaining sustained operational stability without degradation for more than 20 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough could result in improved production of green hydrogen, which is considered the ultimate clean fuel. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.6c06563\" target=\"_blank\">The findings<\/a> were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-02-catalyst-oxygen-evolution-reaction-acidic.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">The Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER)<\/a> can create green hydrogen, but the reaction requires so much energy that producing green hydrogen efficiently is a huge challenge. Furthermore, because the reaction takes place in a highly corrosive, strongly acidic environment, iridium (Ir) is virtually the only rare and expensive catalyst capable of enduring it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team from Tohoku University, Tokyo University of Science, Vanderbilt University and the University of Adelaide has discovered a novel, exceptionally simple method to precisely synthesize extremely small iridium nanoclusters in ambient air. Such a feat was previously considered highly challenging. In addition, the nanoclusters outperform conventional, commercially available iridium catalysts by 1.5 [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239363","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=239363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}