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Smoltek aims to unlock the scale-up for PEM water electrolysis

Efficient use of iridium can boost green hydrogen production in this decade and Smoltek Hydrogen wants to seize the opportunity by offering a nanostructured porous transport electrode that reduces cost and optimizes use of the critical anode catalyst in PEM electrolysis cells.

September 8, 2023

In Octo­ber 8–12 you can take the oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet the Smoltek Hydro­gen team of experts at the 244th Elec­tro­chem­i­cal Soci­ety Meet­ing in Gothen­burg, Swe­den to learn more about our tech­nol­o­gy, our H2LAB and the road to vol­ume process­es for green hydro­gen at scale.

We wel­come you at the tech­ni­cal exhib­it (booth #108) or meet with one of our sci­en­tists at the con­fer­ence: Xin Wen, Bastien Pen­ninckx, Jaime Sanchez, Sankar Sasidharan. 

See you in Gothen­burg, 8–12 October! 

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SEM image of PTL with Car­bon nanofibers (CNF)

Tech­no­log­i­cal scope: The low elec­tri­cal resis­tiv­i­ty and mechan­i­cal strength indi­cate why CNF are an attrac­tive cat­a­lyst sup­port mate­r­i­al. The solu­tion offered by Smoltek Hydro­gen takes full advan­tage of the prop­er­ties of CNF and the oppor­tu­ni­ties afford­ed by PECVD growth by grow­ing ver­ti­cal CNF on a PTL (above image). This method ensures con­tact between the CNF and the PTL while pro­vid­ing a high sur­face area sub­strate. Cat­a­lyst can then be deposit­ed on top of this sub­strate. The ver­ti­cal ori­en­ta­tion of the CNF facil­i­tates coat­ing of the sur­face with addi­tion­al lay­ers of mate­r­i­al, such as cor­ro­sion pro­tec­tion lay­ers or cat­a­lyst particles.

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