Storing renewable energy as hydrogen could soon become much easier thanks to a new catalyst based on single atoms of platinum.
The new catalyst, designed by researchers at City University Hong Kong and tested by colleagues at Imperial College London, could be cheaply scaled up for mass use.
Renewable energy generation, from sources like wind and solar, is rapidly growing. However, some of the energy generated needs to be stored for when weather conditions are unfavourable for wind and sun. One promising way to do this is to save the energy in the form of hydrogen, which can be stored and transported for later use.
Lead researcher Professor Zhang Hua, from CityU, said:"Hydrogen generated by electrocatalytic water splitting is regarded as one of the most promising clean energies for replacing fossil fuels in the near future, reducing environmental pollution and the greenhouse effect."The team's innovation involves dispersing single atoms of platinum in a sheet of molybdenum sulphide .
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