- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Guide to Developing New Materials
By 2030, the German government aims to produce up to 50 percent of the country's hydrogen demand domestically. Achieving this goal requires an electrolyzer capacity of one million kilowatt-hours and scaling high-tech equipment from ideal laboratory conditions to real industrial scales. For the first time, researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Ruhr University Bochum, the Center for Fuel Cell Technology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion have demonstrated how new materials for electrochemical processes can be identified at the lab scale and then transferred into an application-oriented system. Their guide to material development was published in Carbon Energy on September 6, 2024.