PRiME 2024 – 246th ECS (past event)

Smol­tek Hydro­gen is attend­ing the joint inter­na­tion­al meet­ing of Elec­tro­chem­ic­al and Sol­id-State Sci­ence. The meet­ing is arranged by Elec­tro­chem­ic­al Soci­ety Japan, Elec­tro­chem­ic­al Soci­ety Korea and the PRiME 2024/​246th ECS Meet­ing and will be held in Hon­olulu, HI.

Smol­tek Hydro­gen is pro­gress­ing towards enhan­cing water elec­tro­lyz­er (PEMWE) per­form­ance with 0.1 mg/​cm² iridi­um load­ing using our innov­at­ive por­ous trans­port elec­trodes (PTEs). By optim­iz­ing PEMWE assembly and refin­ing the oper­at­ing con­di­tions for PTEs, we are rap­idly approach­ing the US Depart­ment of Energy (DOE) targets.

Sank­ar Sasid­har­an, Seni­or Sci­ent­ist Electrochemistry

Enabling green hydro­gen pro­duc­tion on GW scale

Cur­rently, we have achieved per­form­ance of 2.5 A/​cm² at less than 2V (~80% cell effi­ciency), with an iridi­um load­ing of 0.2 mg/​cm². Our cur­rent focus is on address­ing the know­ledge gap in low-iridi­um load­ing for the anode cata­lyst lay­er (ACL) with our PTEs, par­tic­u­larly regard­ing proton/​electron and water/​gas trans­port and ensure stable oper­a­tion for more than 1,000 hours under indus­tri­al con­di­tions. The res­ults will help us to run dur­ab­il­ity tests at an iridi­um load­ing of 0.1 mg/​cm² and sur­pass the pre­vi­ous record.

Sank­ar Sasid­har­an, Seni­or Sci­ent­ist Electrochemistry 

Smol­tek Hydro­gen presents: Improv­ing Per­form­ance of PEM Water Elec­tro­lys­is Util­iz­ing Nan­ofiber-Enhanced Por­ous Trans­port Elec­trodes with Low Iridi­um Con­tent
When: Wed­nes­day, 9 Octo­ber 2024, 14:40–15:00 Hawaii Stand­ard Time (HST)
Where: Room 312 (level 3, Hawaii Con­ven­tion Cen­ter)
Con­fer­ence code: I01-B2828

Moreover, the recent break­through with A4-sized sub­strates has fur­ther accel­er­ated Smol­tek Hydro­gen­’s vis­ion of enabling green hydro­gen pro­duc­tion on a GW scale with lower pre­cious met­al loadings.

The Prime 2024 (246th ECS) event brings togeth­er the most act­ive research­ers in aca­demia, gov­ern­ment, and industry to engage, dis­cuss, and innov­ate in the areas of elec­tro­chem­istry and sol­id state sci­ence and related technologies.

- See you in Hon­olulu, Octo­ber 6–11! 

Smol­tek Hydro­gen PTE tech­nic­al scope: The low elec­tric­al res­istiv­ity and high mech­an­ic­al strength indic­ate why cor­ro­sion coated nan­ofibers are an attract­ive cata­lyst sup­port mater­i­al. The solu­tion offered by Smol­tek Hydro­gen takes full advant­age of the excep­tion­al nan­ofiber prop­er­ties on a PTL (above illus­tra­tion). This meth­od ensures full con­tact between the nan­ofibers and the PTL while provid­ing a high sur­face area sub­strate and cata­lysts can then be depos­ited on top of this sub­strate. The ver­tic­al ori­ent­a­tion of the nan­ofibers facil­it­ates coat­ing of the sur­face with addi­tion­al lay­ers of mater­i­al, such as cor­ro­sion pro­tec­tion lay­ers or cata­lyst particles.