Freeze casting - a guide to creating hierarchically structured materials

Diverse applications not only in biomedicine, but also in engineering, from new catalysts to highly porous battery electrodes

30-Apr-2024 - Freeze casting is an elegant, cost-effective manufacturing technique to produce highly porous materials with custom-designed hierarchical architectures, well-defined pore orientation, and multifunctional surface structures. Freeze-cast materials are suitable for many applications, from ...

Fuel Cells: Oxidation processes of phosphoric acid revealed by tender X-rays

Options for increasing the lifetime and efficiency of fuel cells

05-Apr-2024 - The interactions between phosphoric acid and the platinum catalyst in high-temperature PEM fuel cells are more complex than previously assumed. Experiments at BESSY II with tender X-rays have decoded the multiple oxidation processes at the platinum-electrolyte interface. The results indicate that ...

Full focus on electrolysis

Sunfire spins off its fuel cell business, Sunfire Fuel Cells

08-Mar-2024 - In the climate-neutral energy industry, both electrolyzers and fuel cells will play a crucial role. With this context in mind, Sunfire has developed the two technologies in parallel. While both the electrolyzer and fuel cell markets have great potential for growth, they require distinctly ...

New e-fuels project to make international shipping climate neutral

Electricity from hydrogen and green fuels

22-Feb-2024 - Transport and trade on the ocean blue must be made much greener. This is the goal of the new €17 million European GAMMA project, where companies and researchers from Europe will develop and convert a bulk carrier to sail on climate-neutral fuels and green power. 60,000 tonnes dead weight That is ...

E-Cars Will Soon be Cheaper than Combustion Engines

Batteries and fuel cells will dominate in the future – “e-fuels” will only play a very minor role

14-Dec-2023 - As early as 2025, an average midsize battery-electric vehicle will be cheaper than a comparable combustion engine vehicle. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The researchers developed a model which they used to assess the expected future costs ...

Scalable electrolyzers using innovative materials for hydrogen export to Germany

How can green hydrogen be transported cost-efficiently from Australia to Germany?

04-Aug-2023 - Shipping the sunshine - How can green hydrogen be transported cost-efficiently from Australia to Germany? This question is being addressed by the Fraunhofer IST in collaboration with German and Australian project partners. The consortium plans to go beyond feasibility studies and to transport ...

New study on optimizing microbial fuel cells shows electrode material can make all the difference

22-Dec-2022 - At present, microbial fuel cells are mainly used in research laboratories to generate electricity. In order for industrial applications to be considered in the future, the fuel cells must be further developed so that they can produce consistently higher amounts of electricity than is currently ...

Water distribution in the fuel cell made visible in 4D

The analysis opens new possibilities for more efficient and thus more cost-effective fuel cells

09-Jun-2022 - Teams from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and University College London (UCL) have visualised the water distribution in a fuel cell in three dimensions and in real time for the first time by evaluating neutron data from the Berlin Experimental Reactor shut down in 2019. The analysis opens new ...

Reference-factory.H2 – electrolyzer and fuel cell production of the future

Hybrid production system accelerates transfer to industry

03-May-2022 - Hydrogen is a key element in the energy transition. To ensure that hydrogen can become generally established as an energy source, it must be produced at market prices, in sufficient quantities and in a climate-neutral manner, and used with a high CO2 reduction rate. This requires affordable, ...

Lasers for hydrogen technology

Fraunhofer ILT inaugurates new research platform

19-Apr-2022 - The success of the energy transition is closely linked to continued research into hydrogen technologies. A major goal of Fraunhofer ILT is to make the fuel cell ready for series production. To this end, the Aachen researchers are setting up a hydrogen laboratory on more than 300 square meters of ...