{"id":245456,"date":"2026-10-15T21:16:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nanoscale-coating-boosts-hydrogen-cell-efficiency-and-durability-by-improving-internal-contact"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:16:59","slug":"nanoscale-coating-boosts-hydrogen-cell-efficiency-and-durability-by-improving-internal-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nanoscale-coating-boosts-hydrogen-cell-efficiency-and-durability-by-improving-internal-contact","title":{"rendered":"Nanoscale coating boosts hydrogen cell efficiency and durability by improving internal contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoscale-coating-boosts-hydrogen-cell-efficiency-and-durability-by-improving-internal-contact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by professor Wonyoung Lee of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a technology that addresses interfacial contact resistance, a key factor limiting the performance of protonic ceramic electrochemical cells (PCECs), a next-generation clean energy technology. The new approach improves both the energy efficiency and durability of the cells.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-77561-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Protonic ceramic electrochemical cells (PCECs) are next-generation eco-friendly energy devices capable of operating in two modes within a single system: as fuel cells that generate clean electricity from hydrogen without producing pollutants and as electrolyzers that use electricity to split water and produce hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by professor Wonyoung Lee of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has developed a technology that addresses interfacial contact resistance, a key factor limiting the performance of protonic ceramic electrochemical cells (PCECs), a next-generation clean energy technology. The new approach improves both the energy efficiency and durability of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245456","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=245456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}