The H2FC Supergen Research Conference in St Andrews is less than two weeks away. We’ve got a cracking set of speakers, research presentations and poster exhibition lined up, so if you haven’t booked yet: BOOK NOW DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2022 1000 – 1715hrs (registration/coffee from 0900) Welcome and opening address Prof. John…
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H2FC Research Conference – BOOKING NOW OPEN
Join us 8 – 9 June 2022 at the University of St Andrews for our first in-person annual research conference since 2020, bringing together hydrogen and fuel cell researchers to discuss the latest topics in the field. BOOK NOW PLENARY SPEAKERS Our distinguished plenary speakers include: Dr Qiong Cai, University of Surrey – her…
Newton Fund Researcher Links UK-China Workshop
UK-China Workshop on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the Newton Fund, the University of Nottingham and Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences will be holding a workshop on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells in Shanghai, China on 21st…
Solid metal hydrogen announcement makes global headlines
Have a pair of Harvard scientists created the most powerful form of energy storage known to humanity? Hydrogen hit the headlines this weekend, as Harvard researchers Ranga Dias and Isaac Silvera published a paper in Science claiming to have transmuted hydrogen into a solid metal (Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen). The pair…
Pressure experiment offers tantalising glimpse of metallic hydrogen
For some fuel-cell manufacturers, compressing hydrogen to a liquid has become routine. But for decades, materials scientists have dreamed of going further and forcing hydrogen into a solid metal phase. Metal hydrogen is believed to exist at the heart of gas giant planets like Saturn and Jupiter, and if replicated on Earth could form the…
Nickel-based catalyst performs competitively with platinum in hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells
The hunt for platinum’s successor as a hydrogen oxidation catalyst continues in this month’s Nature Communications (Zhuang, Z. et al. Nickel supported on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes as hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst in alkaline electrolyte. Nat. Commun. 7:10141 doi: 10.1038/ncomms10141 (2016)). A research team from the University of Delaware, in partnership with Beijing University of Chemical…
European coalition launches flagship hydrogen program
There is a reason that transport technologies have remained so conservative over the decades. A new fuelling system can only work if the infrastructure exists to get the energy to the car, but the cost of setting up such a system is prohibitive when so few people own the cars. This has been one of the…